''Family Pride'' was a short- lived British

soap opera A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio drama ...

produced by Central Television, which ran for two series from 1991–92. It was written by Mahmood Jamal and Barry Simmer and centred on the lives of three Asian families living in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the We ...

. It was produced by

Zia Mohyeddin Zia Mohyeddin (; born 20 June 1931) is a British-Pakistani actor, producer, director and television broadcaster who has appeared in both Pakistani cinema and television as well as in British cinema and television throughout his career. Zia ...

, directed by Henry Foster and Faris Kermani, and first appeared on 30 June 1991. The series was shown in the Midlands region on ITV and nationally on

Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service ...

. Among the actors to have appeared in the series were Paul Henry,

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and

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