Radio: The Common Touch

Three years ago, when Kraft Television Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBCTV) first went on the air, the audience numbered in the thousands, most of them in bars. Last week, as Kraft celebrated its 150th performance, the hour-long show was telecast to an audience of millions, but with little change in the original beer-and-skittles diet that had won friends and fans among the bar watchers.

"The best show for us is the kind that, on the stage, is a great matinee piece," says Producer-Director Stanley Quinn, 35, who came to TV by way of Princeton...