Citizen Khan (2012)

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

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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.

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.

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.

The Khan family are preparing for Shazia's wedding - has Mr Khan booked the mosque?

Mr Khan's plan to attend the Sparkhill Business Association goes awry.

Mr Khan is reluctant to dip into the rainy day fund to finance a holiday.

Mr Khan is determined to be the impresario behind the new call to prayer at the mosque.

Mrs Khan require calm for a prayer meeting but Mr Khan's plans may cause problems.

When Mrs Khan suggests inviting the Parvez family to the wedding, Mr Khan has a dilemma.

Mr Khan's day off from being a 'busy' leader is interrupted when Alia fails her exams.

Mr Khan's plans to join the committee are threatened by the arrival of his mother-in-law.

Mr Khan wants to go to the mosque to meet the local MP.

The imam at the mosque calls a special fast and Mr Khan uses it to compete with Dave.

Shazia and Amjad are going up in the world; they have got a trial day at an exclusive gym.

Mrs Khan has a makeover and Mr Khan wants a starring role in a video Dave is making.

On Christmas Eve, Mrs. Khan decides to have a traditional family Christmas, their first one ever. Mr. Khan is not supportive; he thinks Christmas is just an excuse for the people to get ripped off and he believes Khans has the perfect reason not to celebrate it as they are Muslims.

Mr Khan is over-the-moon when he learns that his mother-in-law wants to move into a home.

With Shazia and Amjad's wedding fast approaching, the Khans invite the Maliks to dinner.

Mrs Khan takes on more shifts at the supermarket, leaving Mr Khan in charge of the house.

Mr Khan discovers that Prince Charles might be dropping in to the city farm.

Mr Khan reluctantly agrees to organise Amjad's stag, while Shazia goes on her hen do.

Shazia and Amjad's wedding day has arrived, but all is not well in the Khan household.

A frantic chain of events is set in motion as the Khans prepare for Christmas.

Mr Khan gets into a state at a stately home, when Naani takes the law into her own hands.

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 tries to win a Pride of Birmingham award, which leads to an altercation.

Mr Khan decides to invest his and Mrs Khan's pension money in a fried chicken franchise.

While teaching Baby Mo to play cricket, Mr Khan discovers his grandson might be psychic.

Mr Khan enters the Great Sparkhill Bake Off. Meanwhile, Alia gets a boyfriend.

At the Winter Wonderland, Mr Khan finds himself re-creating an iconic festive scene.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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