The Best TV Shows on SRF 1

Every SRF 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Eurovision Song Contest and Scene of the Crime represent the pinnacle of SRF 1’s programming, launching in 1956 and 1970. Check out the most acclaimed shows on SRF 1, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for July 2025. With its programming history stretching from 1956 to 2022, SRF 1 offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows.

  • Fascht e Familie
    Fascht e Familie (1994)10.0

  • Tschugger
    Tschugger (2021)8.1

    Normally, the Valais cantonal police are concerned with minor details: runaway sheep and a presence at the village festival. Until the day when an inconceivable murder attempt awakens the criminalistic energy of policemen Bax and Pirmin. In the process, the duo not only uncovers local networks, but also tangles with dark forces.

  • Red Zora and Her Gang
    Red Zora and Her Gang (1979)7.5

    In the Croatian coastal town of Senj , orphans living on the fringes of society come together under the leadership of a girl who, because of her red hair , is called Rote Zora . The citizens of the city treat the destitute children like outcasts. Wild pranks are the reactions of the troops. In order to survive, the children become criminals, but within their community they adhere to fixed rules. Your top priority is solidarity. They call themselves Uskoks . The only one who feels connected to them is the old fisherman Gorian. The children help him to assert himself against the big fishing companies.

  • Wilder
    Wilder (2017)7.5

    A detective returns to her home town in the Swiss mountains, to remember her brother who died in an accident many years ago along with several other children. After a murder in town, she stays and starts to investigate.

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.2

    The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

  • The Undertaker
    The Undertaker (2013)7.2

    A detective leaves the force to take over the family business as an undertaker at the same time as he is being investigated for murder. His close encounters with corpses and his earlier police training lead him to see things some of his ex-colleagues miss and he investigates the crimes he encounters in an unofficial capacity often to the dismay of the official police.

  • Heidi
    Heidi (1978)7.1

    Young Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the mountains where she discovers the liberty and the beauty of Swiss landscapes. Later when Heidi is forced to become a companion to a young invalid girl in a big town, she discovers just how much she misses the mountains, her grandfather, and her friend Peter.

  • Die Beschatter
    Die Beschatter (2022)7.0

    Crime comedy series about an ex-cop who founds an improvised detective school and gives his students real cases to solve.

  • Pingu
    Pingu (1986)6.9

    Playful penguin Pingu lives with his family in Antarctica, where he often finds himself caught up in mischievous high jinks with his pal Robby.

  • New Heights
    New Heights (2021)6.8

    When business consultant Michi Wyss inherits his late father's troubled farm he must confront his rural past -- and his family's future.

  • Labyrinth of Peace
    Labyrinth of Peace (2020)6.3

    1945 Zero hour. Europe is reduced to rubble. Thirty million displaced and uprooted people. At the heart of this ravaged continent lies Switzerland. This small neutral country, which has been all but spared by the war, becomes a hub for Nazi war criminals, Allied Secret Services and Holocaust survivors.

  • Scene of the Crime
    Scene of the Crime (1970)6.1

    Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

  • G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten
    G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten (2005)4.0

  • Arena
    Arena (1993)N/A

  • Lüthi und Blanc
    Lüthi und Blanc (1999)N/A

  • Giacobbo/Müller – Late Service Public
    Giacobbo/Müller – Late Service Public (2008)N/A

  • SRF bi de Lüt Live
    SRF bi de Lüt Live (2009)N/A

  • Best Friends
    Best Friends (2010)N/A

  • Sternstunde Musik
    Sternstunde Musik (2013)N/A

  • Gredig direkt
    Gredig direkt (2020)N/A