Fictional General Assistance Department was created to help other ministries with often trivial problems. Incompetent civil servants that are running it get into trouble everytime they try to do their job. But most of the time they just try to look like they are doing any job.
Hamilton-Jones and Lamb are doing their best for General Assistance Department, which is not much really.
1 | Pirates of Lakeview Reservoir |
| Two of the London boroughs are in dispute over the fluoridation of drinking water reservoir. General Assistance Department step in to... make it worse. |
2 | Something About a Soldier |
| Hamilton-Jones and Lamb accidentally discover that one of the World War II isolated outpost of anti-aircraft forces haven’t been officialy released and probably the soldiers don’t even know that the war is over. They move at once to fix the mistake. |
3 | The Trouble with Cecil |
| The computer system is installed in the office of General Assistance Department, but it is being used for the purposes that are far from those planned by Sir Gregory. |
4 | Mahboni Lies Over the Ocean |
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5 | The Man Who Made it Rain |
| Brilliant inventor leaves his new work, the machine that modifies weather, in hands of General Assistance Department. |
6 | Train of Events |
| Hamilton-Jones and Lamb are sent to Wales to inspect rumours about headless train driver that is haunting the abandoned stations. |
7 | A Degrading Business |
| Hamilton-Jones is downgraded to a "simple B" level and has to take exam to regain his previous position. |
8 | The Butcher of Glensporran |
| The scheme for decentralization of office space places Hamilton-Jones and Lamb on a mission to Scotland. |
9 | Counter Spies |
| Hamilton-Jones meets his old friend from Australia in the club. Overwhelmed by his stories of how full life he lives Hamilton-Jones tells him that he is working in the counter espionage himself, which turns out to be closer to the truth than he expected. |
10 | A Question of Dundancy |
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11 | A Back-Dated Problem |
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12 | The Hole |
| Lennox-Brown and Lamb are put in charge of speeding up the construction of building next to the ministry. It seems quite simple, but there is a matter of hole in the ground. |
13 | The Day the Martians Came |
| Finally Martians visited the Earth and who else could handle them better than Lennox-Brown and Lamb? |