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s05e07 · 2016-12-23
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Citizen Khan
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Sitcom set in Birmingham, following the trials and tribulations of larger-than-life self-appointed Muslim community leader Mr Khan and his long suffering family.
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7 this season · 34 totals05e01 Cricket 2016-11-04 20:30
Cricket
In first episode Mr Khan has to bare all after forgetting his wedding anniversary, and he has a chance meeting with Sadiq Khan, The Mayor of London.
s05e02 Bullies 2016-11-11 20:30
Bullies
Mr Khan has bought a drone camera to keep an eye on the local neighbourhood as he believes it is starting to go a bit downhill. This is brought home when he finds out that his grandson, Mo, is being bullied at his nursery. But when Mr Khan decides to take Amjad in hand and teach him how to be a better dad, he gets a lot more than he bargained for during a trip to the local pool and later when re-enacting a scene from Birmingham gangster drama Peaky Blinders. Meanwhile, Shazia and Amjad are getting ready to go on their first family holiday together – except Mrs Khan thinks she's going along too. How is Shazia going to tell her that this won't be her first holiday since Great Yarmouth 1988?
s05e03 Funeral 2016-11-25 20:30
Funeral
Sitcom following the trials and tribulations of self-appointed Muslim community leader Mr Khan and his long-suffering family. Tragedy strikes the Khan household, as Amjad's bewigged father, Mr Malik, is knocked down and killed by the number 37 bus. The real tragedy for Mr Khan is that the grief-stricken Mrs Malik is staying with them and comfort eating him out of house and home. But when Mr Khan discovers he might be able to find an investor for his new invention amongst the funeral mourners, he throws himself into the burial arrangements.
s05e04 Scab's Parents 2016-12-02 20:30
Scab's Parents
Sitcom following the trials and tribulations of self-appointed Muslim community leader Mr Khan and his long-suffering family. Mr Khan has been spending quality time with Alia's 'friend who is a boy' Scab. They are getting on famously and, after a one-to-one chat with Alia, Mr Khan suspects it won't be long before there is another Khan family wedding on the horizon. But then Scab takes fright at the prospect of the Khans meeting his parents. The Khans believe it is because they are a bit snooty and object to the idea of having a Pakistani daughter-in-law. So Mr Khan and Amjad hotfoot it to the posh country club to confront Scab's father in a sweaty sauna and give him a piece of their minds.
s05e05 Alia's University 2016-12-09 20:30
Alia's University
Sitcom following the trials and tribulations of self-appointed Muslim community leader Mr Khan and his long-suffering family. Mr Khan has to drop his daughter Alia off for her first day at university - in Scotland. Mrs Khan wants the whole family to come, so Mr Khan has to find a way to get the whole lot of them from Sparkhill to Glasgow. When the car breaks down, he is forced to improvise alternative travel arrangements, which gives them all plenty of time to reminisce about Alia's early years.
s05e06 Mr Khan's Niece 2016-12-16 20:30
Mr Khan's Niece
Sitcom following the trials and tribulations of self-appointed Muslim community leader Mr Khan and his long-suffering family. Mr Khan and Mosque manager Dave organise rival Muslim Days at the community centre. Mr Khan is convinced his fun day with a bouncy Mosque and 'pin the beard on the Imam' stall will be far more popular than Dave's Women in Islam event. But he forgets that he'd agreed to look after his wayward niece Shabana. Mr Khan is forced to take the stroppy teenager to Muslim Day with him and, to top it all off, Dave has managed to invite Baroness Sayeeda Warsi whom Khan is desperate to impress.
s05e07 It's a Khanderful Life 2016-12-23 20:30
It's a Khanderful Life
Sitcom following the trials and tribulations of self-appointed Muslim community leader Mr Khan and his long-suffering family. In this festive episode, Mr Khan tips his hat to Frank Capra's Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life, with Sparkhill taking the place of Bedford falls and Mr Khan, like George Bailey, facing up to the fact that his life hasn't turned out the way he planned it. An encounter with a mysterious heavenly passer-by shows him how things might have been different and convinces him that, despite all its frustrations, his is a 'Khanderful Life' after all. Mr Khan narrates as the story goes back in time to the the Khan's early years.