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Citizen Khan
2012 - 2016 7.1 (26 votes) 5 Seasons
Official Website
Genres
Comedy
Networks
BBC One
Created By
Adil Ray

Citizen Khan

Overview

Family-based sitcom set in the capital of British Pakistan - Sparkhill, Birmingham. Citizen Khan follows the trials and tribulations of loud-mouthed, tight-fisted, self-appointed community leader Mr Khan and his long suffering family, wife Mrs Khan and daughters Shazia and Alia.

Top Cast

Adil Ray
Adil Ray

Mr. Khan

Shobu Kapoor
Shobu Kapoor

Mrs. Khan

Maya Sondhi
Maya Sondhi

Shazia Khan

Bhavna Limbachia
Bhavna Limbachia

Alia Khan

Abdullah Afzal
Abdullah Afzal

Amjad Malik

Seasons

Season 0 (2013)

No overview available.

5 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Khan Christmas
2013-12-20

On Christmas Eve, Mrs Khan has decides to have a traditional family Christmas, their first one ever.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Racist Stereotypes or Harmless Fun
2013-08-31

Citizen Khan - racist stereotypes or harmless fun? Presenter John Rees discusses whether the BBC comedy is insulting to Muslims, or whether it’s a healthy sign that we can laugh at ourselves. With Ashgar Bukhari of Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK, Freelance journalist and religious commentator Hasnet Lais and Anjum Anwar, Chair of Women’s Voices.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: A Khan Family Christmas
2014-12-19

It's Christmas Eve, 10 months after Shazia and Amjad's wedding. Mr Khan is feeling extremely festive - he's even got a new Christmas suit. And what's more, this year he's been given the honour of placing the star on top of the Sparkhill interfaith Christmas tree. But when the whole family gathers at the Khan house to head out to the ceremony, it turns out that Shazia has other plans. A frantic chain of events is set in motion, in what can only be described as the Greatest Pakistani Christmas Story Ever Told. This episode features guest appearances from Robert Wilfort, Neil Edmond, Eric Potts and Dev Sagoo.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Mr Khan's Christmas Wonderland
2015-12-18

Snowmen, reindeers and an actual donkey, it must be Christmas in the Khan household. Mr Khan embraces Christmas like never before, even launching his own range of traditional halal mince pies with the help of a local business dragon. Shazia and Amjad try to find somewhere else to live, because their landlord is selling their house and they can't afford the deposit to buy it. Naani has a solution - she's going to give them the money for the deposit. Her only mistake is entrusting it to Mr Khan, who promptly loses it. To retrieve it, he heads to the Community Centre's Winter Wonderland, where Dave's putting on a show about a talking snowman that may or may not be able to fly. Mr Khan finds himself re-creating an iconic festive scene. The story ends with a tearjerker as Mr Khan suffers a very personal loss.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: It's A Khanderful Life
2016-12-23

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. But 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 we go back in time to the The Khan's early years.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (2016)

No overview available.

7 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Cricket
2016-11-04

Having been made to sleep in the car by Mrs Khan after forgetting their wedding anniversary, Mr Khan is on a mission to make amends. But his boast to Dave that he knows local boy Moeen Ali backfires when Amjad suggests he could get the famous England all-rounder to make a celebrity appearance at the fundraiser that Mrs Khan and Shazia are helping organise. Mr Khan has no option but to get to the cricket match to find Moeen and do whatever it takes.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Bullies
2016-11-11

Mr Khan buys a drone camera to keep an eye on the local neighbourhood and finds out that his grandson Mo is being bullied at nursery. However, when he 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 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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Funeral
2016-11-25

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Scab's Parents
2016-12-02

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Alia's University
2016-12-09

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 all 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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Mr. Khan's Niece
2016-12-16

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: It's a Khanderful Life
2016-12-23

Mr Khan faces up to the fact that his life hasn't turned out the way he planned it.

Runtime: 30 min

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