So You Want to Be on the Radio

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

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?

Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.

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.

When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. Believed lost for decades, it was recently rediscovered by the BFI and has now been restored. The film moves the action from Berlin to London, where Emil goes to stay with his grandmother and cousin. Thereafter, the tale of Emil’s adventures with a gang of streetwise London children faithfully follows the original plot.