Vince McEveety directed numerous Emmy Award-winning television series, including The Untouchables, Gunsmoke, six Star Trek episodes (including "Dagger of the Mind", "Balance of Terror", "Patterns of Force" and "Spectre of the Gun"), Magnum, P.I., How the West Was Won, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Stranger at My Door, Murder, She Wrote, and Diagnosis: Murder, starring Dick Van Dyke.
[2] From 1994 through 1997, McEveety produced[citation needed] the television series Columbo starring Peter Falk, for which he also directed seven episodes between 1990 and 1997.
Homage was paid to his contributions to the series by a humorous mention of a character having his surname in the Columbo episode "Undercover", which he directed.
[3] His film Firecreek (1968), starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda and Inger Stevens, touches on issues previously ignored by the genre and influenced a generation of filmmakers.
[4] McEveety returned to the Western genre with The Castaway Cowboy (1974), starring James Garner and Vera Miles.