Richard L. Bare Productions

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

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

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.

Joe takes his wife on a much-needed vacation, and almost survives.

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.

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 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.

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

Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.

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

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.

Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks.

Joe thinks he's back in the gladiator days, and finds himself sentenced to be thrown to the Coliseum lions after breaking a string while playing the lyre for King Nero.

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 goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.

Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Flatorsharpsky, next door. Joe buys a piano, and the accompanying free lessons, and sets out to impress Alice. Alice is vastly unimpressed.

Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run the office while he is on vacation will get a raise.

Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.

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

Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.