Success Quote by Martin Landau

Pride, here, is doing more than personal brand maintenance; it’s an attempt to lock a cult artifact into the official timeline of television history. When Martin Landau says Space: 1999 "paved the way", he’s arguing for lineage and influence in an industry that loves to act as if innovation begins every fall season. It’s a veteran actor insisting that a show once treated as niche, weird, or dated actually helped normalize the very idea of ambitious, effects-driven sci-fi on TV.

The phrasing is carefully balanced: he doesn’t claim the show was flawless, just consequential. That’s a smarter pitch because Space: 1999 is remembered as much for its mood and design as for uneven storytelling. Landau sidesteps the critical baggage and goes straight for cultural impact. The subtext is also protective: in a medium that discards yesterday’s product, he’s defending the labor, craft, and risk of making genre television before prestige TV gave it social permission.

The DVD mention plants the quote firmly in a specific moment: the early-2000s era when physical media became a second life for shows that never got their due in first run. "New generation of fans" isn’t just sentimentality; it’s strategy. DVDs promised remastered visuals, bonus features, and collector legitimacy - a way to convert nostalgia into discovery, and discovery into canon. Landau is selling access, yes, but also legacy: proof that the future of fandom often depends on how well the past is preserved and repackaged.