Gordon L. Day

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

Gordon L. Day
Birth name:	Gordon Lambert Day
Date of birth:	14 June 1926
Place of birth:	Berkeley, California, USA
Date of death:	24 May 2005
Place of death:	Mission Hills, California, USA
Roles:	Re-recording mixer

Gordon L. Day, CAS (14 June 1926–24 May 2005; age 78) was an award winning sound mixer employed at Glen Glenn Sound Co. from where he served as a re-recording mixer for two Star Trek: The Original Series second season episodes, plus all twenty four episodes of the third season.

With a career as a sound mixer spanning twenty-five years, Day had a laundry list of contributions to various productions, among his longer tenures at the role included Mannix (1968-70), Mission: Impossible (1968-71), Hogan's Heroes (1969-71), Little House on the Prairie (1977-78), In the Heat of the Night (1988-89), as well as a slew of TV movies, including Margin for Murder (1981, with Dean Gilmore). Day co-earned an Emmy Award in 1969 for "Outstanding Achievement in Film/Sound Mixing" for his submission of the Mission: Impossible episode "The Submarine" (which featured Leonard Nimoy, Lee Meriwether, Tony Dante, Bob Johnson, Vic Perrin and Al Roberts), and again co-earned a Prime Time Emmy Award in 1982 for "Outstanding Limited Series or Special Film Sound Mixing" for the CBS TV movie The Scarlet and the Black (featuring Christopher Plummer and Barbara Bouchet).

Star Trek credits

• TOS:
  • "The Ultimate Computer"
  • "The Omega Glory"
  • "Spectre of the Gun"
  • "Elaan of Troyius"
  • "The Paradise Syndrome"
  • "The Enterprise Incident"
  • "And the Children Shall Lead"
  • "Spock's Brain"
  • "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
  • "The Empath"
  • "The Tholian Web"
  • "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"
  • "Day of the Dove"
  • "Plato's Stepchildren"
  • "Wink of an Eye"
  • "That Which Survives"
  • "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"
  • "Whom Gods Destroy"
  • "The Mark of Gideon"
  • "The Lights of Zetar"
  • "The Cloud Minders"
  • "The Way to Eden"
  • "Requiem for Methuselah"
  • "The Savage Curtain"
  • "All Our Yesterdays"
  • "Turnabout Intruder"

External link

• Gordon L. Day at the Internet Movie Database