Mandie Fletcher

Mandie Fletcher
Born
Mandie Elizabeth Fletcher

(1954-12-27) 27 December 1954
OccupationsTelevision 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. 1985 Three up Two Down BBC TV Series Director Mandie Fletcher Make-up and Hair Designer-Joan Stribling

Filmography

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

References

  1. ^ a b Jacqueline Downs "Mandie Fletcher" in Yoram Allon (ed, et al) Contemporary British and Irish Film Directors, London: Wallflower Press, 2001, p.94