Porter Wagoner Show Day! Check back all day! The Porter Wagoner Show aired from 1960 to 1981. There were 686 30-minute episodes tape, the first 104 (1960–66) in black-and-white and the remainder (1966–81) in color. At its peak, his show was featured in over 100 markets, with an average viewership of over three million. Reruns of the program air on the rural cable network RFD-TV and its sister channel in the UK Rural TV. The shows usually featured opening performances by Wagoner with performances