The BEST episodes of Citizen Khan
Every episode of Citizen Khan ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Citizen Khan!
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.
#1 - Family Holiday
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/10/2012
Mr Khan is reluctant to dip into the rainy day fund to finance a holiday.
#2 - Amjad's Promotion
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/17/2012
Mr Khan is determined to be the impresario behind the new call to prayer at the mosque.
#3 - The Cricket Match
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/24/2012
Mrs Khan require calm for a prayer meeting but Mr Khan's plans may cause problems.
#4 - The Khan's Anniversary
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/1/2012
When Mrs Khan suggests inviting the Parvez family to the wedding, Mr Khan has a dilemma.
#5 - Naani's Shopping Trip
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/3/2012
Mr Khan's plan to attend the Sparkhill Business Association goes awry.
#6 - Wedding Venue
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/27/2012
The Khan family are preparing for Shazia's wedding - has Mr Khan booked the mosque?
#7 - Farmer Khan
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/28/2014
Mr Khan discovers that Prince Charles might be dropping in to the city farm.
#8 - Alia's Boyfriend
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/11/2015
In line with the great tradition of British Muslim baking, Mr Khan enters the Great Sparkhill Bake Off. He's making his own version of the lemon drizzle inside-out cake. Meanwhile, there are more pressing problems on the domestic front: Alia's got a boyfriend. Mrs Khan is worried that he sounds too rough and sends Mr Khan (and son-in-law Amjad) to give him a talking to - at a pub. After negotiating a number of bearded biker men, Khan meets the boyfriend and for purely selfish reasons invites him over to the house. However, Mrs Khan makes a discovery that forces Mr Khan to quiz Alia about every father's worst nightmare...
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Mystic Mo
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/4/2015
While trying to teach Baby Mo how to play cricket, Mr Khan discovers that his little grandson might be psychic and immediately sets him to work picking his lottery numbers. Amjad's mother, Mrs Malik, is threatening to solve Shazia and Amjad's housing problems by taking them with her to live in Bradford. Mrs Khan succumbs to stomach pains as a result of the stress, and the family rushes her to hospital. On her hospital gurney, while waiting to see a doctor (who she tries to set up with Alia), Mrs Khan makes her husband promise to stop Shazia, Amjad and Baby Mo going to live with the in-laws. Khan has to use his ingenuity - and a DNA testing kit - to try and save the day, not before electrocuting himself on a defibrillator and getting involved in one mo' mix up...
#10 - Chicken Shop
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/27/2015
Mrs Khan decides she and Mr Khan should have more 'together' time, and invites Khan along to watch her tango class demonstration. Mr Khan already has something planned - he's opening a fried chicken franchise on the high street. He is keeping it a secret from Mrs Khan as he has invested their pension money in it. He enlists Alia, Amjad, Naani and nephew Faraz as his chicken shop crack team. Matters are further complicated when the manageress at the chicken shop, Sandra, takes a shine to Amjad. But for Mr Khan this could be just what he needs...
#11 - Local Hero
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/20/2015
Baby Mohammad is having a few unsettled nights, and Shazia and Amjad are finding it difficult to cope with the lack of sleep. Mrs Khan thinks they need to spend some quality time together, and deputises Mr Khan to book them a romantic weekend away. Mr Khan is trying to win a Pride of Birmingham award (Alia misinterprets this as him going on a Birmingham Pride march), which leads to an altercation with a parking attendant at the supermarket. The dispute escalates and Khan finds himself staging a protest against parking fines from inside his car (after the attendant tries to have it towed away). The police are called - in the shape of community support officer Amjad - and Khan is able to solve Amjad's problems and his own in one fell swoop. Alia, meanwhile, has managed to get herself and baby Mohammad on a TV show, much to the family's embarrassment...
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - Family Photo
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/6/2015
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 when Alia tries to hijack the studio session to get photos for her personal fashion vlog (which already has thousands of followers - most of them drawn to a video of Mr Khan walking to the bathroom in his underpants).
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#13 - The Wedding
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/12/2014
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.
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#14 - Stags and Hens
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/5/2014
Mr Khan reluctantly agrees to organise Amjad's stag, while Shazia goes on her hen do.
#15 - Aunty Noor
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/2014
Mrs Khan takes on more shifts at the supermarket, leaving Mr Khan in charge of the house.
#16 - The In-Laws
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/7/2014
With Shazia and Amjad's wedding fast approaching, the Khans invite the Maliks to dinner.
#17 - Naani's Return
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/31/2014
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.
#18 - The Makeover
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/2013
Mrs Khan has a makeover and Mr Khan wants a starring role in a video Dave is making.
#19 - Shazia's Gym Visit
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/2013
Shazia and Amjad are going up in the world; they have got a trial day at an exclusive gym.
#20 - Fasting
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/2013
The imam at the mosque calls a special fast and Mr Khan uses it to compete with Dave.
#21 - Amjad's Health Check
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/2013
Mr Khan wants to go to the mosque to meet the local MP.
#22 - Naani's Day Out
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/2013
Mr Khan's plans to join the committee are threatened by the arrival of his mother-in-law.
#23 - Alia's College
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/2013
Mr Khan's day off from being a 'busy' leader is interrupted when Alia fails her exams.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - Farley Manor
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/30/2015
Mr Khan gets into a state at a stately home when Naani takes the law into her own hands. 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.
#25 - Cricket
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/2016
The opening episode of the 5th season sees Mr Khan make an exhibition of himself in front of a packed house at Edgbaston Cricket Ground. 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.
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