Citizen Khan

- Season 5

(2016)

Mr Khan makes 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 to organise. Mr Khan has no option but to get to the cricket match to find Moeen and do whatever it takes.

Mr Khan has bought a drone camera to keep an eye on the neighbourhood, as he believes it is starting to go downhill. This is brought home when he finds out that his grandson Mo is being bullied at his nursery. But when he decides to teach Amjad how to be a better dad, he gets overwhelmed, both during a trip to the local pool and 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, but Mrs Khan thinks she is going too. How will Shazia tell her that this ...

Tragedy strikes the Khan household: 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 that he might be able to find an investor for his new invention among the funeral mourners, he throws himself into the burial arrangements.

Mr Khan enjoys spending time with Scab and pressures Alia to marry him. Scab is sheepish about the Khans meeting his parents, resulting in Mr Khan and Amjad visiting a country club to see Scab's father to find out why. Scab's parents visit the Khan household and all appears to be cosy despite Mr Khan's ideas about how to mix a cocktail. Scab arrives at the Khan house and asks Mr Khan's permission for Alia's hand in marriage, but Alia has her own ideas.

Mr Khan must drop his daughter Alia off for her first day at university--in Scotland. Mrs Khan wants the whole family to come, so Mr Khan must 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.

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. To top it all off, Dave has managed to invite Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, whom Khan is desperate to impress.

In this festive episode, Mr Khan tips his hat to Frank Capra's Christmas classic La vie est belle (1946), 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 passerby 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 Khans' early years.