Citizen Khan - Episode Guide

The first in this new 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.

Plans are being made for Shazia's forthcoming wedding to fiance Amjad. Mrs Khan's on the warpath because Mr Khan's forgotten to book the wedding venue, but it shouldn't be a problem as long as he can persuade mosque manager Dave to do him a favour.

Mrs Khan's mother is staying with the family. But Mr Khan's big opportunity to hobnob with the bigwigs of the Sparkhill Business Association is threatened when he has to take his mother-in-law on a shopping trip she will never forget.

Mrs Khan is very keen to go on holiday. But holidays cost money plus there's Shazia's honeymoon to pay for. Mr Khan is reluctant to spend the 'rainy day' money. Why go to the Maldives when there's a perfectly nice guest house in Bradford? However an eventful Annual General Meeting at the local mosque seems to provide a surprising solution...

Mr Khan is determined to be the impresario behind the new call to prayer at the Sparkhill mosque, and sets out to hold his own X Factor-style auditions. Meanwhile, family duty calls when he is asked to sort out future son-in-law Amjad's job promotion.

Mr Khan's new plasma TV, complete with 'surroundy soundy', provides the perfect opportunity to have his friends round to enjoy the Pakistan vs England cricket match.

But Mrs Khan needs the house to be a place of complete calm as she plans to host a prayer meeting for her recently widowed friend. But the Khan household is rarely quiet, let alone when there is a crucial cricket match on...

The Khans have a spare invite for the wedding. For Mr Khan, the fewer the guests the better, which is why he believes in inviting only influential people like Councillor Javed. So when Mrs Khan suggests inviting the Parvez family, Mr Khan is faced with an important decision. On top of it all, it happens to also be the Khans' wedding anniversary.

Mr Khan's day off from being a 'busy' community leader is interrupted when Alia fails her exams, prompting Mrs Khan to lay down the law. She tells Mr Khan to sign Alia up at the Muslim Academy, but when he finds out how much it costs, Khan decides there's a better option...

Meanwhile, Shazia has invited Debbie, her best friend and boss, round for dinner with the intention of asking her to be chief bridesmaid at her wedding. But she hasn't counted on her dad inadvertently inviting an extra guest...

Mr Khan is off to meet the mosque manager, whom he expects will finally get him onto the mosque committee. Naani, Mr Khan's mother-in-law, is visiting from Pakistan. Mrs Khan is worried because she has been doing nothing except stare into space all day. She tells Mr Khan that, until Naani perks up a bit, she will be staying with them indefinitely.

Khan hurries to the mosque to try and enroll Naani onto a course activity and prove to Mrs Khan that Naani can go home, but Khan has a disagreement with the mosque manager. He storms out in a strop and puts plan B in to action, taking Naani to a not-entirely-appropriate alternative venue, where she meets a not-entirely-appropriate new friend.

Mr Khan wants to go to the mosque to meet the local MP, who is visiting to endorse the mosque's mobile men's health check unit. Khan needs to take a guinea pig, and future son-in-law Amjad fits the bill perfectly. Mrs Khan and the girls are off to buy baby clothes for a friend's new baby.

Mrs Khan loves babies, and is looking forward very much to Amjad and Shazia providing her with lots and lots of them in the very near future.

Amjad's health check does not quite go to plan as Mr Khan causes him to attend the doctor's for real, potentially creating terrible consequences for the family.

The imam at the mosque calls a special fast and Mr Khan uses it to compete with Dave, the mosque manager. He is suffering badly, and the old double whammy of low blood sugar and a dodgy bladder means he is a ticking time-bomb.

Alia has a foreign exchange student staying, and Shazia has announced she has been offered a great job opportunity in India, which will mean more money and the chance to put down a deposit on a new flat. However, being away for twelve months will put her engagement to Amjad in jeopardy. Mrs Khan decides the only way to save their relationship is to pay the flat deposit for them, and she sends Mr Khan to the building society to secure the all-important loan.

Khan arrives for his meeting with the building society manager starving hungry and gasping with thirst, not perhaps the perfect conditions to persuade him to give him a loan.

Shazia and Amjad are going up in the world; they have managed to get a trial day at an exclusive gym. Mrs Khan is keen to go along to the bums and tums class, but Mr Khan is less impressed. He is more interested in contacting a famous Pakistani cricketer to operate this years's Eid tombola at the mosque. He uses his newfound hobby - the internet- to try and track him down. Mr Khan thinks he has found a cricketer, and arranges to meet him at the mosque, but the person who shows up is not who he expects, creating a potentially embarrassing situation for the mosque and the Khans. Mr Khan has to race to find Mrs Khan at the gym before she finds out exactly what has happened. Things go from bad to worse as Khan is forced to hide and gets mistaken for a yoga guru

Mrs Khan is having a makeover but her husband is not impressed - new dresses cost money. He only has eyes for the promotional video Dave, the mosque manager, is making to promote the mosque in the local community. Mr Khan thinks he is the perfect person to star in the video. He is, after all, a fine example of Pakistani manhood.

Dave, however, has other ideas, and wanting to promote a more modern image of mosque-goers, he chooses Sajid, an attractive, 'metrosexual' friend of the Khan family.

Khan decides if you can't beat 'em, join 'em and goes to extreme lengths in order to prove to Dave that he's modern and metrosexual too. What he hasn't realised is that Sajid is home alone with Mrs Khan, and the reason for her makeover suddenly becomes blindingly clear. He rushes home to confront the pair, but is not prepared for what he discovers when he arrives.

When the family arrives back from a trip to Pakistan with Mr Khan's mother-in-law in tow, Mr Khan is lumbered with looking after her. Then a miracle happens - she announces she wants to move into a home. When Sam - the head of a local care centre - arrives, Mr Khan is over-the-moon. That is, until he discovers the mother-in-law may be worth some money. With the help of son-in-law-to-be Amjad, a ridiculous disguise and a spying mission, Mr Khan tries to stop Naani moving out at all costs.

Shazia and Amjad's wedding is fast approaching. As Mr and Mrs Khan's relationship with Amjad's mother, Mrs Malik, has always been fractious at best, they invite the Maliks to the house for a dinner party. Mr Khan sees Mr Malik as his fast track onto a local business committee. The Khans pull out all the stops to impress their guests - Mrs Khan is whipping up a storm in the kitchen and Mr Khan has got a new suit, organised parlour games and even has a new piece of furniture to show off. But when Mr Khan receives an unexpected phone call, any future the two families have together sits on a knife edge...

Mrs Khan takes on more shifts at the local supermarket, leaving Mr Khan in charge as househusband. In his new role Mr Khan introduces strict new house rules and sends his younger daughter Alia to a London mosque for work experience. Never one to miss out on a bargain, he then abuses Mrs Khan's staff discount card at the supermarket to become the local nappy dealer.

When Alia returns from London with Mrs Khan's domineering sister, Aunty Noor, Noor threatens to reveal his scam. But Mr Khan has other ideas and takes drastic action to avoid the wrath of Mrs Khan...

When Mrs Khan announces she's running a stall at the local city farm to promote the supermarket's new organic range, Mr Khan couldn't be any less interested. Everyone who's anyone has been invited to a Prince Charles royal reception in Birmingham, but he hasn't had an invitation.

When he discovers that HRH might be dropping in to the city farm, he sees a chance to get his invite directly from the source. Unfortunately he discovers that he won't even get close unless he can impress the formidable head of the welcoming committee, Marina Fairchild.

When his attempts to win Marina round fall on deaf ears, in customary Khan style, he decides to bend the truth. Everything goes swimmingly until his lies catch up with him and life on the farm becomes quite a handful.

It is the day of Shazia's hen do, and she is looking forward to having some fun with her friends. Unfortunately, though, she ends up with a few extra guests in tow. Mr Khan reluctantly agrees to organise Amjad's stag do, which inadvertently involves an Imam returning from missionary work. While Shazia finds herself bombarded by everyone's stories of the horrors of married life, back at the house, Amjad is put in a compromising position. And when the two parties collide, the wedding is left hanging in the balance.

The day of the wedding of Mr Khan's daughter Shazia to 'pakora short of a picnic' Amjad has finally arrived, but all is not well in the Khan household.

Mrs Khan is still upset that Shazia has opted for a British-Asian fusion affair, rather than a big, fat, traditional Pakistani wedding. Then, Shazia won't let her help with the organization and when Shazia refuses to wear a matriarchal family heirloom, it all gets too much - Mrs Khan refuses to go to the wedding, and instead takes a shift at the supermarket.

So, with Amjad in tow, it's up to Mr Khan to get his wife back onside. But, of course, in Mr Khan's world things aren't that simple. As a result, Amjad goes missing, Shazia's mother-in-law-to-be Mrs Malik makes a startling revelation, and thanks to Mr Khan there's a very near miss at the ceremony.

The Khans decide to have a family day out to visit Farley Manor, owned by Lord Anstruther, which is putting on a display of Indian treasures collected during the British Raj. Mr Khan's efforts to impress the council committee are put on hold while he takes Naani around the old manor. He becomes much keener on all things ancient and Indian after meeting Lord Anstruther, but his hopes of hobnobbing with the aristocracy are jeopardised by Naani's sticky fingers.

Mr Khan bites off more than he can chew when he takes on a new role as a lollipop man, and a family photo opportunity causes friction between sisters Alia and Shazia. Mr Khan wants to get baby Mohammad enrolled at a good school and tries to take the inside track by becoming a school crossing patrol officer. However, the training regime and selection process is tougher than he was expecting - even with Amjad helping him to get fit around the streets of Birmingham. Meanwhile, Naani wants the family to have a proper family photo done in a studio. Shazia and Alia clash ...

Baby Mohammad is having a few unsettled nights, and Shazia and Amjad are finding it difficult to cope with the lack of sleep.

Mr Khan decides to invest his and Mrs Khan's pension money in a fried chicken franchise and enlists Alia, Amjad, Naani and nephew Faraz.

While trying to teach Baby Mo how to play cricket, Mr Khan discovers that his little grandson might be psychic.

Mr Khan enters the Great Sparkhill Bake Off and decides to make his own version of a lemon drizzle inside-out cake. Alia gets a boyfriend which worries Mrs Khan.

Mr Khan introduces a range of traditional halal mince pies to the community with the help of a local business mogul. Shazia and Amjad decide they want to move out.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's Christmas Eve and Mrs Khan has decided to have a traditional family Christmas, their first one ever. Mr Khan is very 'bah-humbug' about the whole thing; he thinks Christmas is just an excuse for people to get ripped off and he believes the Khans have the perfect reason not to celebrate it - they're Muslim!

Mr Khan is collecting the family's 'unwanted' items for the Mosque charity collection, and the biggest donor will be named Muslim of the Month. Nevertheless Mrs Khan sends him off to buy a tree and some decorations while she and the rest of the family set about trying to prepare to stuff their first Christmas turkey!

Things take a turn for the worse when he realises he has accidentally dumped Mrs Khan's favourite family heirloom in the charity collection. Can he get it back, bag the very last Christmas tree in Sparkhill and get back home in time to make this a Khan Christmas to remember?

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.