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At the local labour exchange, everyone moans about the lack of decent jobs. Nearby, Bert Handy and his secretary Miss Cooling attempt to fill vacancies at Helping Hand, a new enterprise. When word gets round, people rush to the agency, notably Sam Twist, Francis Courtenay, Delia King, Gabriel Dimple, Lily Duveen, Mike Weston and Montgomery Infield-Hopping. Bert decides to hire them all. At first, their only customer is a man who speaks gobbledygook, so nobody can understand him. Days later, business picks up and Delia has an assignment to try on women's wardrobe for Mr Delling, someone who is planning a surprise for his wife. However, things get complicated when the man's wife arrives home unexpectedly.

Meanwhile, Sam Twist is sent to a baby-sitting job, only to find that there is not a baby to be sat. Instead, there is Mrs Panting, a woman who needs to make her husband jealous, succeeding in the process with Sam getting a black eye. The following day, Francis is assigned to take a pet for a walk. However, at the owner's house, Francis learns that it is a chimpanzee. He takes the chimp for a walk and soon discovers that people who work in the transport industry have an aversion to apes. They eventually end up at a chimps tea party, enjoying an afternoon tea. Lily Duveen, who has been employed at a wine tasting evening, collects invitation cards from the attendees. Afterwards, she samples some wines and makes a spectacle of herself.

Helping Hand's next client is a man from Amalgamated Scrap-Iron. Being busy, he requests that someone take his place in the queue at the hospital outpatients department. Bert promises to send someone, but the chap insists that the top man does the job himself. Bert ends up queuing at the hospital, where he is mistaken for an eminent diagnostician and taken on a tour of the hospital.

The next job that Francis undertakes is as a model. Chuffed that he has been chosen, he is crestfallen after discovering that the job is an advertisement for a bee-keeper's helmet. His next job is between a bickering couple. The husband cannot understand his wife, who continually berates him in her native German. Thanks to Francis getting emotionally involved, the wife starts speaking English and the couple make up.

Boxer Vincent later pops into the office. He requires four helpers to act as seconds, for his fighter Dynamite Dan. When they get to the venue, Dan is terrified by his opponent, Mickey McGee, and pretends he has sprained his finger. The fight is off until Gabriel takes on McGee instead. Sam is excited over his next job. Due to a mix-up, he thinks he is on a secret spying mission to the Forth Bridge, when all that is required of him is to make up a fourth in a game of bridge. Returning, Sam learns that the whole of Helping Hand has been engaged to demonstrate exhibits at the Ideal House Exhibition. All of the demonstrations end in calamity. Sam's next job is at an exclusive men's club, where no matter how hard he tries he cannot keep silent, which is a strict rule of the establishment.

Miss Cooling decides on a new filing system, for a more streamlined operation, and job cards are put in cubby holes for each of the workers. The cleaner, however, eventually knocks the box down and puts the cards back all mixed up. Everyone gets someone else's assignment, with disastrous results. The gobbledygook man returns, and this time Francis is there to translate. He is their landlord and has been trying to announce that he will have to vacate the premises, because he has had a better offer. Due to a show of unity by all the staff, the landlord agrees that they can stay, on the provision that they do something for him. His main interest is property development, and he needs a house cleared and cleaned. The team ends up demolishing the house. However, the landlord turns out to have changed his mind and decided to demolish it and replace it with a luxury block of flats, so all ends well.