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- As soon as Joe and Alice McDoakes buy a television set, the neighbors begin to stream in, on any or no excuse, and stay to watch television and raid the refrigerator. To escape the turmoil, Joe goes to the movies, where he finds himself sitting between Doris Day and Gordon McRae.
- Joe McDoakes goes on "The Hour of Agony" radio show and tells Dr. Agony of his marriage problems. The biggest is that his wife Alice snores. Joe has even more problems trying to follow Dr. Agony's instructions.
- Joe McDoakes gets more than he bargained for when he goes on a vacation.
- When 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. He shakes and sweats when he hears Alice discussing with the handyman how to use an ax, when she orders a gun for his birthday, when he finds a box of rat poison, and even when she offers to rub his neck. Soon Joe has been committed to a sanitarium for hallucinations.
- A semi-humorous look at the various types of smokers and the methods available to them to kick the habit.
- Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Flatsorsharpsky, next door. Joe buys a piano, and the accompanying free lessons, and sets out to impress Alice. Alice is vastly unimpressed.
- Joe McDoakes' neighbor Ellery, who continually embarrasses Joe with his physical prowess, makes a big hit with Joe's wife Alice.When she wants the piano moved, Ellery is on hand to do the job with such ease that Joes decides to take a correspondence course in body-building. As usual with Joe's ideas, not a good idea.
- White-collar worker Joe McDoakes is full of fears and phobias, but his most deeply-rooted psychic disturbance is fear of his boss. He has a dream and sees himself as besting his boss and establishing himself as the boss of his own super-deluxe office.
- 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.
- Joe and Alice's marital issues force a joint counseling session with a psychiatrist who implements a form of role reversal so each partner can see the other's side.
- A humorous but informative look at how an average man can remedy common vision problems.
- A satiric look at doctors and hospitals through the eyes of Joe McDoakes.
- Joe McDoakes graduates from Potash University and gets a job in a bank run by former classmate Harrington Arrington Farrington Jr. Joe struggles in his menial tasks for years and eventually learns enough to embezzle $1,000,000 and take over the bank.
- Joe McDoakes' boss invites him to a swanky dance. Joe admits he can't dance and the boss gives him a lesson in the office. At the dance, Joe is a social failure and makes many mistakes while dancing with his boss' wife. He goes to a dancing school and becomes a big success.
- Joe McDoakes decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, he sees his dream house turn into a nightmare.
- When he gets to his office after a usual morning of his wife Alice's nagging, Joe McDoakes starts to daydream about what life would be like married to the beautiful office blonde. She, in his dream, turns out to be indolent and parasitical, and when he awakens, life with Alice looks pretty green.
- Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the target of murderously greedy family members.
- When a watch that Joe McDoakes bought for Mr. Batten, who intended to give it to office contest-winner Bessie Wigglegood, is spied by both Mrs. Batten and Joe's wife Alice, Joe once again finds himself on the short end, and winds (no pun intended) up missing out on his vacation and must pay for two watches instead of just one.
- In need of a new vehicle, Joe goes to the Cagey Car Company lot to get a used car--with predictable results.
- Joe McDoakes goes through all the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father. The results aren't exactly what he expected.
- Joe McDoakes endeavors to move his furniture with a 1906 car.
- 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.
- Alice visits Mr. Agony with her latest problem with Joe: they gave Junior a toy railroad for Christmas, but Joe took it over and became obsessed with it, to the point that 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 dumbwaiter. Mr. Agony helps Alice solver her problem.
- Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument. Then a friend gets him a job as a fiddle player in a gypsy tea room, but his playing drives away the diners and he is fired. He finally catches on as a one-man band.