The BEST AVROTROS shows of all time

Every AVROTROS show, ranked

We've compiled the average episode rating for every AVROTROS show to compile this list of best shows!

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9.20
783 votes

#1 - Wie is de Mol?

9 contestants and 1 mole (mol). The nine contestants have to complete a series of challenges. When challenges are successfully completed, a certain amount of money is earned. When a challenge is lost, money can be lost, depending on the challenge. The tenth contestant is the mole: a saboteur. He should deliberately sabotage as many of the challenges as possible. The mole has to stay undercover as the contestants are trying to find the mole. At the end of every 2 days the contestants get 20 questions about the mole. Who ever knows least about the mole gets eliminated and goes home. At the end of the series 3 candidates are left: the loser, the winner and the mole. The winner gets all the money gathered by the contestants. The mole cannot win any money.

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8.62
616 votes

#2 - Flikken Maastricht

Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.

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8.09
203 votes

#3 - The Lice Mother

Newly single mum Hannah is determined to get her life back on track. At daughter Floor's new school she quickly becomes involved in the miniature society with its own rules and regulations on playground and parking issues, treats, group chats, crossing guard duties and of course... head lice checking.

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7.87
62 votes

#4 - Dit Was Het Nieuws

Dit was het nieuws is a Dutch television program of RTL4, wherein two teams give a satirical account of the previous week's news. The program has the form of a game show in which two teams, each with a team leader and weekly guest, compete against each other. The scoring is not serious; after the first round, for instance, the score is always 4-4.

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7.75
32 votes

#5 - The Year of Fortuyn

For the leader of the most popular party, there seems to be little in the way of becoming the new Prime Minister of the Netherlands. But everything changes when newcomer Pim Fortuyn enters politics. In addition to admiration, Fortuyn also evokes fierce resistance, causing emotions to rise.

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7.72
130 votes

#6 - Flikken Rotterdam

Rotterdam serves as the setting for the police series Flikken Rotterdam, the second Dutch spin-off of the Flemish series Flikken, following Flikken Maastricht. It features the same blend of thrilling action, classic whodunits, and personal interactions between the main characters but set in a different city with new teams. Flikken Rotterdam is produced by the same team behind Flikken Maastricht.

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7.59
30 votes

#7 - Turbulent Skies

A chronicle of KLM Dutch Royal Airlines founder Albert Plesman and pioneering aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker's symbiotic but tempestuous bond as they struggle to establish the interwar Netherlands' role in global civil aviation.

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7.12
164 votes

#8 - The Golden Hour (2022)

Mardik, a committed detective of Afghan origin, is distrusted by a secret service employee after she discovers something about his past. One evening, Mardik receives a text message revealing that his childhood friend Faysal has come to the Netherlands. From that moment on, the lives of many residents of Amsterdam are in danger.

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6.18
68 votes

#9 - Women of the Night

Haunted by a shadowy past, the wife of a rising star in Amsterdam's mayoral office finds herself drawn into the city’s underworld of sex and drugs.

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6.10
31 votes

#10 - Hunted (NL)

Can you just disappear nowadays? 12 contestants need to stay out of a hunter team of experts for 21 days. the 'hunters' have experience in police, military and private sector tracking. Leading detective Sander Schaepman hunts the 'fugitives' from his headquarters.

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