Hancock takes on a new job as an air steward. But when one of the passengers on his first flight is Sid who is on the run from the police, and the other passengers include four police officers looking for a bank robber, Hancock's first landing doesn't go quite as expected!

Hancock, a junior clerk in a City office for 19 years, receives a promotion when his army friends, who met at a reunion, place large orders with the firm. However, they are all fraudulent orders and Sid has the takings!

Hancock needs to get to the top of the waiting list for a Council House but to do this he needs a wife and four children. So he adopts Sid and four of his mates, but then he can't get rid of them!

Famous actor Jack Hawkins takes elocution lessons with Hancock and is reduced to being the leader of a rock-and-roll group.