Number of Movies: 58
Overview
A collection of short films featuring Joe McDoakes in a variety of situations
Joe McDoakes
Directing
June 26, 1948
Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
March 10, 1956
In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better.
November 22, 1947
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes attempts to save his five-year marriage to Alice.
July 1, 1950
Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor. None of the courses of action she is advised to take have any impact on Joe, until she is advised to create the impression that she has left Joe for another man.
December 18, 1954
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.
August 19, 1950
Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.
September 22, 1951
"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.
May 15, 1948
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.
May 7, 1955
Joe and Homer are both on a jury trying an accident case involving their boss and a gangster. Interference from both sides makes their task difficult.
September 13, 1947
Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.
March 29, 1952
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.
November 10, 1951
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.
June 7, 1947
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
November 14, 1942
A semi-humorous look at the various types of smokers and the methods available to them to kick the habit.
October 2, 1948
Joe McDoakes becomes enmeshed in a corrupt political election.
March 12, 1955
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.
March 14, 1954
Joe McDoakes, determined to be his own boss in this Joe McDoakes Comedy entry, opens up a new restaurant. Complaining customers and a sanitation inspector who closes the restaurant are just some of Joe's problems.
January 8, 1949
Joe McDoakes does NOT want to be a baby sitter.
January 3, 1951
Joe MacDoakes' next-door neighbor, Marvin, comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, but they get the pipes crossed with the gas-line and almost asphyxiate themselves.
May 5, 1956
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.
October 29, 1955
Joe McDoakes is employed as the seventh vice-president in a firm that only makes promotions from the employee ranks.
November 8, 1952
It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.
July 2, 1949
Joe wants to be a muscle man.
October 28, 1949
Joe comes up with a complicated scheme to bilk his dead uncle out of an inheritance.
February 14, 1948
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.
December 19, 1953
Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the target of murderously greedy family members.
April 14, 1951
Joe McDoakes and his wife Alice attend a western movie and George soon has himself in the movie shown on the screen as Jump-Along Skip-Along McGur
June 7, 1952
Joe has to find a way to go to a convention.
October 5, 1946
In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.
January 12, 1952
Joe uses his "contacts" to buy a new oven as cheaply as possible.
August 27, 1955
Alice visits Mr. Agony with her latest problem with Joe. They had given Junior a toy railroad for a Christmas present, and Joe had taken it over and become obsessed to the point he has built a railroad empire using all of his time, energy and money. When Alice's mother comes to dinner, Joe even has a rigged-up train serving as the dumb waiter. Mr. Agony helps Alice to solve her problem.
January 3, 1948
Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.
July 14, 1956
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?
May 23, 1953
Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop in, stay to watch television, and raid their refrigerator.
March 12, 1949
Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox
December 28, 1946
Joe McDoakes attempts to deal with his myriad neuroses.
December 1, 1945
Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.
April 15, 1950
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.
October 31, 1953
Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.
December 26, 1942
A humorous but informative look at how an average man can remedy common vision problems.
January 28, 1956
When he gets to his office after a usual morning of nagging by his wife, Alice, Joe McDoakes starts to daydream about what life would be like married to the beautiful office blonde.
December 7, 1946
Average American Joe McDoakes searches in vain for any cure that will halt his fast-disappearing hairline.
May 10, 1947
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.
December 2, 1950
A satiric look at doctors and hospitals through the eyes of Joe McDoakes.
September 20, 1952
Joe McDoakes' dimwit neighbor Marvin becomes a dentist, and manages to convince poor Joe to let him become Marvin's first patient.
November 6, 1948
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.
August 22, 1949
Joe's in-laws come over, and they suck.
January 30, 1954
Joe starts having trouble with an obnoxious neighbor.
February 4, 1950
Joe and Alice McDoakes are planning on throwing a party, but Joe mixes up his list of creditors with the list of names Alice gave him to invite. The creditors have a much better time than Joe does.
June 2, 1951
Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife.
July 2, 1951
In need of a new vehicle, Joe goes to the Cagey Car Company lot to get a used car,... with predictable results.
August 2, 1952
When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again finds himself on the short end.
January 10, 1953
Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument.
August 1, 1953
Despite the fact that during the war, Joe McDoake's dog Dusty did everything wrong including giving information to the enemy, Joe brings him home with him.
May 1, 1954
In this Joe McDoakes Comedy, Alice insists they go to a night club, although Joe is both tired and broke.
October 30, 1954
Joe and Alice decide to rent a room in their house to their neighbor Marvin, who says he is a potato broker.
January 29, 1955
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.
December 17, 1955
Joe McDoakes is a shy, rookie motorcycle cop.
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