Mandie Fletcher
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Mandie Fletcher | |
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| Born | Mandie Elizabeth Fletcher 27 December 1954 |
| Occupations | Television director, film director |
Mandie Elizabeth Fletcher (born 27 December 1954) is a British television and film director.
Fletcher began her career at the BBC as an assistant floor manager and later production manager on comedy programmes, becoming a director of situation comedy while working on the final series of Butterflies (1983). She followed this with the second (1986) and third (1987) series of Blackadder,[1] for which she won the Best Comedy Series award at the 1988 BAFTAs. She also directed episodes of Only Fools and Horses (1986).
Her debut feature was Deadly Advice (1994).[1] Fletcher has continued to work in television with Hamish Macbeth (1996–1997) and Jam and Jerusalem (2006–2009). Most recently she directed the critically acclaimed BBC 2 series Roger & Val Have Just Got In, which was broadcast in Spring 2012, and starred Dawn French and Alfred Molina. She also directed the latest episodes of Absolutely Fabulous including the Olympic special. In 2013, she directed the pilot episode of In and Out of the Kitchen. In 2016, Fletcher directed Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.
Filmography
[edit]- Film
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1994 | Deadly Advice |
| 2016 | Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie |
| 2018 | Patrick |
| Pre-production | Unsuitable Game |
- TV
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1979-1980 | Not the Nine O'Clock News | Production team (Seasons 1 & 2) |
| 1982 | Open All Hours | Production manager (Season 3) |
| 1982-1983 | Last of the Summer Wine | Production manager (Season 7) |
| 1983 | Butterflies | Production manager and director of 2 episodes (Season 4) |
| 1984 | The Fainthearted Feminist | |
| 1985 | The Mistress | Assistant producer (Season 1) |
| Barnet | TV Movie | |
| Three Up Two Down | Season 1 | |
| 1986 | Blackadder II | |
| Only Fools and Horses | 4 episodes of Season 5 | |
| 1986-1987 | Brush Strokes | Seasons 1 and 2, also producer on Season 2 |
| 1987 | Blackadder the Third | |
| 1988 | Blackadder: The Cavalier Years | TV short, uncredited |
| No Frills | Also producer | |
| 1989 | Desmond's | Season 1 |
| The Stone Age | TV Movie | |
| 4 Play | 1 episode | |
| 1992 | Screen One | |
| 1996 | Tales From the Crypt | |
| 1996-1997 | Hamish Macbeth | 4 episodes |
| 2006 | The Complete Guide to Parenting | |
| 2006-2009 | Jam & Jerusalem | |
| 2010 | Accidental Farmer | TV Movie |
| 2011 | My So Called Life Sentence | |
| 2011-2012 | Absolutely Fabulous: 20th Anniversary | |
| 2012 | Roger & Val Have Just Got In | Season 2 |
| 2013 | Stella | 3 episodes of Season 2 |
| The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek | TV Mini-series, also producer | |
| 2014 | Blandings | 4 episodes of Season 2 |
| 2014-2015 | Miranda | Series finale |
| 2015 | In and Out of the Kitchen | |
