Richard L. Bare Productions

In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.

Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.

When his wife Alice questions Joe as to whether his insurance policy is paid up, he begins to see a plot to murder him in everything she does.

Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence.

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.

Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.

"I never knew what happiness was till I got married—and then it was too late," Joe recalls, flashing back to bachelor days and his courtship with Alice.

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns into a nightmare.

Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.

Joe McDoakes and his wife love to participate in radio show contests, but something seems to interfere every time they are lucky enough to be chosen as participants.

Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest in the time he has left.

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.

Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.

In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.

Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.

Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather she stay at home to tend to domestic duties. When Alice threatens to return to her old job, a reluctant Joe agrees to her request to get her a job at his office. How will this work out?

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes attempts to save his five-year marriage to Alice.

Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.