10 best series from the “First” channel

The main television channel in Russia regularly pleases viewers with new series. Of course, domestic production. The “product” usually turns out to be of high quality, so the channel has more and more fans. There are many reasons for such a universal love for the series on the First. This is a variety of genres (detectives, melodramas, military, adventure, etc.), and the lack of a huge timing. In such projects, both the brightest stars of Russian cinema and unknown actors are filmed, who often wake up famous after the premiere.

Of course, even in such a variety of series there are those that will remain in the memory of the audience for a long time. They will be reviewed more than once, advised to relatives and friends. We have prepared for you a rating of the best TV shows on Channel One. If any of them interests you, you can always watch it on the official website of the channel.

10 Trigger (2018)

10 best series from the First channel

Dramatic serial film. The protagonist of the series is a successful psychologist Artem Streletsky. He is known for his extraordinary manner of communicating with clients and a special approach. While other psychologists have been listening to clients’ complaints for years, Artem uses the shock method. Trigger. In psychology, this is the name of an annoying factor with which you can open all the internal traumas of a person.

Bitter truth, insults, experiments. Many patients after the first session already hate Streletsky, but return to him, as the method works. However, Artyom would also do well to put things in order in his life. He cannot improve relations with his father, he divorces his wife… Soon Artyom has another problem: one of his patients dies of his own free will…

9. Saboteur (2004)

10 best series from the First channel

Series about the war. The action takes place in 1942. Two comrades, graduates of the intelligence school, are sent to the front. Leni and Alexei have big plans for life: the guys want to defeat the enemy and become colonels by the end of hostilities, no less. But their dreams are not destined to come true. The truck on which they were heading to the unit came under fire. Alexey dies from enemy bullets. The fellow traveler of the guys asks Lenya to give him all the documents of Alexei. He manages to convince Lenya that in this way his comrade will continue the war with the Nazis. Soon they receive their first assignment from the commander…

8. Plot (2003)

10 best series from the First channel

A comedy melodrama where the main character is an ordinary rural district police officer. However, yesterday he lived in the city. Police lieutenant Pavel Kravtsov is a very honest and serious person. He fails to build a successful career. Soon, the young policeman was sent to the village as a district police officer. Pavel has no choice but to move to Anisovka. He is accompanied by a faithful friend – the dog Caesar. Upon arrival in the village, Pavel learns that not everything is so simple here. The former precinct did not quit, but he was killed. Kravtsov decides to take up the investigation of this case …

7. Method (2015)

10 best series from the First channel

Detective psychological thriller. Investigator Rodion Meglin is an extraordinary person. He is able to solve the most complex murders. He investigates crimes committed by maniacs and psychopaths. Meglin prefers to work alone. Most criminals die at his hands during detention.

Yesenia, a law graduate, becomes his intern. It will not be easy to work with Rodion, but the girl will make every effort. She will endure everything, because she has a personal motive. Yesenia’s mother was killed under mysterious circumstances, and the perpetrator has not yet been found…

6. Yesenin (2005)

10 best series from the First channel

A crime drama series that tells about a conspiracy version of the death of a famous poet. There are two storylines here. The first tells about Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Khlystov. He is investigating the murder of Yesenin. He manages to find evidence that the poet was killed by a conspiracy of the Soviet government. Thanks to the second storyline, viewers will be able to get acquainted with the brightest moments of the life of Sergei Alexandrovich.

5. Far Side of the Moon (2012)

10 best series from the First channel

Mystery detective series. 2011. The main character Mikhail Solovyov is a Muscovite, a police captain. For three years now, he has been trying to catch a cruel maniac named Red, at the hands of which more than one young woman died. On this day, Mikhail planned to arrest a serial killer, but something went wrong. Perhaps the reason was the news of the death of Solovyov’s father, although the captain had not seen him for 30 years. Michael gets into an accident. When he wakes up, he discovers that he is in 1979. Now he is a Soviet policeman. He was tasked with protecting the city from a maniac. Yes, it’s Red again…

4. Medicine Man (2017)

10 best series from the First channel

Action drama television series. Pavel Andreev received an excellent medical education abroad. Now he is a neurosurgeon. The young man returns to his native St. Petersburg and gets a job at a large medical center. His career is on the rise. Not everyone likes this; former classmate Sergei Strelnikov becomes his main competitor. Andreev’s boss asks him for a favor – to perform a complex operation to remove the tumor. Meanwhile, a talented neurosurgeon begins an affair with the boss’s daughter. Soon, an accident occurs with Pavel, as a result of which he loses his memory …

3. Storm Gate (2006)

10 best series from the First channel

Military drama. Alexander Doronin – senior lieutenant. His company is sent to the North Caucasus. Chechnya. The commander puts before him a difficult task – to defend the Storm Gate Pass. The company is accompanied by a GRU special forces group. Each soldier has his own story, but it does not matter who they were in civilian life. Now they are forced to fight shoulder to shoulder. Not everyone will be able to return home …

2. Owl Cry (2013)

10 best series from the First channel

Crime detective filmed in the best traditions of the Soviet “spy movie”. 1957, Pskov region, the town of Ostrov. Mysterious crimes regularly take place here, which will be investigated by the KGB officer Mitin and the ordinary policeman Balakhnin. The story begins with a banal grocery store robbery. When capturing a criminal group, police captain Yury Sirotkin is seriously wounded. A strange event occurs in the hospital.

Delirious, Yuri begins to speak German. He immediately falls under the suspicion of the relevant authorities, he is accused of espionage. Mitin and Balakhnin are trying to figure out this complicated case, and at the same time to rub each other’s noses. This is not only a rivalry between the two departments, but also the usual male competition. Both Mitin and Balakhnin are interested in the same woman.

1. Major (2014)

10 best series from the First channel

Detective crime series. One of the most famous on Channel One. Igor Sokolovsky is a “golden” boy. He is the son of a rich man, has great potential, but wastes his life on nonsense. Alcohol, drugs, parties, beautiful girls… Soon he gets into trouble. To save his son from prison, the father makes an extraordinary decision. He deprives him of all material wealth and sends him to work in the police, since education allows. Igor studied to be a lawyer. He is not welcome in the department. The major is despised, hated, but it is here that he can become a real man.

Leave a Reply