American Television History Lindsay Wagner Representation Agreement from Her Bionic Woman Breakthrough Year 1975

Lindsay Wagner

Manuscripts & Autographs

Wagner, Lindsay. Signed agency contract from January 1975 documenting the professional representation system governing Wagner’s career during the year she first portrayed Jaime Sommers on The Six Million Dollar Man, the role that led to The Bionic Woman and established her as a prominent woman in American science-fiction television. The agreement appointed an unidentified party as her worldwide representative, agent, and manager, revealing how performers delegated career negotiation and oversight through exclusive contractual relationships and providing primary-source evidence for the study of talent management, women’s employment in network television, and entertainment-industry labor practices. Wagner’s portrayal of Jaime Sommers began in 1975 and developed into the starring role in The Bionic Woman, which premiered in 1976; she received an Emmy for the series in 1977.

Wagner, Lindsay. Agency contract signed. January 1975. 3 leaves, typed recto and verso, folio. The agreement designates the contracting party as Wagner’s “sole and exclusive representative, agent and manager throughout the world,” establishing the geographic scope and exclusivity of the professional relationship. Signed “Lindsay Wagner” in blue ink. Its language records the mechanisms through which an actor’s employment and business affairs could be centralized under an agent-manager arrangement at a decisive point in her career, shortly before the television role for which she became most closely identified. Wagner’s official biography describes Jaime Sommers as a character who challenged prevailing representations of women on television.

Three folio leaves with text on both sides. Clean and well preserved, near fine. A substantial signed entertainment contract documenting the business infrastructure surrounding Lindsay Wagner’s transition from working actor to the star of a landmark women-led television series.

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