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Many years ago Thunder in Paradise was an American TV series.
Rickard Linder, 23 January 2000
My Russian is not good enough to catch the name of the country
in the Russian overdubbed version with German episode titles
of part one. On the
other hand, so far I've found two references, at the Aminare TV and
Telvis sites, that both
seem to refer to it as Northern Tananasia.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 7 February 2014
image by Rickard Linder and Marc Pasquin, added 2000
In one of the episodes the characters of the series visited an imaginary
arabian country. In some scenes the nation's flag was visible.
As you can see the flag is divided into four equal fields with a diamond
shaped field in the middle. The top left field is red, the top right field is
blue with a white star, the bottom left field is green with a white(or maybe
yellow) palm tree, the bottom right field is black and the diamond shaped
field is white with the islamic symbols, the moon and the star (as in for
example the Turkish flag) in gold (I think it was gold colored but I'm
not 100% sure).
Rickard Linder, 23 January 2000
The flag appears in the episodes Sealed with a Kismet (ep. 6 & 7). At YouTube. In part one, the flag can be seen as a car flag at 22:31. Mostly the reverse is shown, though, which is shown to indeed be in reverse but without the charges.
In part two, at a wedding, a flag is hung in such a way that we can take a good look at it, at 15:24. This good look shows us that the lozenge is actually a square, and compared to the image above the moon, without star, faces the other way. (Later images look like there might be some small, dark-coloured charges as well, but those are bullet holes.)
A nice flying flag is part of a sequence from approximately 27:00. At
first we only see the obverse, which again has charges, but later we can
also catch glimpses from the other side, and I'm tempted to say it does
not have any charges there.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 7 February 2014
image captured from video by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 7 February 2014
In the scene starting at 25:32, two red flags with gold fringe are
carried after the prince and his female companion, but we see those
flags almost only from the sinister-hoist side, which is plain. What looks
like a gold fringed plain dark green flag is present as well, in the very
small multitude of populace, and that one is certainly blank on both sides.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 7 February 2014