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,Jacqueline Downs "Mandie Fletcher" in Yoram Allon (ed, et al) Contemporary British and Irish Film Directors, London: Wallflower Press, 2001, p.94 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). 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 Film Year Title1994Deadly Advice2016Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie2018PatrickPre-productionUnsuitable Game
TV Year Title Notes1979-1980Not the Nine O'Clock NewsProduction team (Seasons 1 & 2)1982Open All HoursProduction manager (Season 3)1982-1983Last of the Summer WineProduction manager (Season 7)1983ButterfliesProduction manager and director of 2 episodes (Season 4)1984The Fainthearted Feminist1985The MistressAssistant producer (Season 1)BarnetTV MovieThree Up Two DownSeason 11986Blackadder IIOnly Fools and Horses4 episodes of Season 51986-1987Brush StrokesSeasons 1 and 2, also producer on Season 21987Blackadder the Third1988Blackadder: The Cavalier YearsTV short, uncreditedNo FrillsAlso producer1989Desmond'sSeason 1The Stone AgeTV Movie4 Play1 episode1992Screen One1996Tales From the Crypt1996-1997Hamish Macbeth4 episodes2006The Complete Guide to Parenting2006-2009Jam & Jerusalem2010Accidental FarmerTV Movie2011My So Called Life Sentence2011-2012Absolutely Fabulous: 20th Anniversary2012Roger & Val Have Just Got InSeason 22013Stella3 episodes of Season 2The Ginge, the Geordie and the GeekTV Mini-series, also producer2014Blandings4 episodes of Season 22014-2015MirandaSeries finale2015In and Out of the Kitchen
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