The Best Episodes Directed By Vincent Mceveety
Every TV Episode Directed by Vincent Mceveety Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Vincent McEveety Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Vincent McEveety is "Seven Hours to Dawn", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by N/A". "Seven Hours to Dawn" aired on 9/18/1965 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - Seven Hours to Dawn
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1965
Mace Gore's gang has taken over Dodge. When Matt is believed killed, Festus and Doc have a plan to lure Gore into a trap, even though his usual plan is to leave by dawn.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
9.0/10 1 votes#2 - Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (1)
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/14/1989
Eudora McVeigh, a rival mystery writer, arrives at Jessica's door with seemingly friendly intentions, but the discovery of a corpse and a web of deceit follows her to Cabot Cove leading Jessica to suspect the woman of ulterior and sinister motives.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.3/10 47 votes#3 - Balance of Terror
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1966
Kirk pits the Enterprise against an invisible spaceship testing the Federation's defenses.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Paul Schneider
8.0/10 1 votes#4 - The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 12/18/1988
The airplane her late husband bailed out of in 1952 has finally been found -- with a body inside.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/10 2 votes#5 - Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2)
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/21/1989
After Seth is hospitalized and diagnosed as poisoned, with an apple Eudora gave Jessica, she still believes in her colleague's innocence. Sheriff Metzger discovers the murdered P.I. was following her husband, Hank Shipton, and found him adulterous with rich Victor Casper's wife, Lisa. Hank's son, Bobby, is beaten up by local Arnie on account of pool bet debts. Jessica ties up all the loose ends.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/10 2 votes#6 - Seal of the Confessional
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1989
A parishioner's confession to a priest is confidential and nothing will make him break his oath.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 2 votes#7 - Hannigan's Wake
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1990
A journalist died before finishing his book trying to show a man was unjustly convicted of murder 16 years ago. Jessica is asked to use his notes to finish his book.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
8.0/10 1 votes#8 - Tainted Lady
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 5/5/1991
The owner of a diner is accused of using too much 'spice' in the food, when someone finds arsenic.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 2 votes#9 - The Big Ripoff
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1974
Suspecting her ex-lover was killed by his wife, a woman hires Rockford to jet to Europe to compile evidence. After a fling with the widow, Rockford suspects Steve Nelson faked his death.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Robert Hamner
7.6/10 20 votes#10 - It's All in the Game
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1993
Nick Franco is a violent, two-timing gigolo and his current paramour, Laura Stanton, has had enough. With the help of a young woman named Lisa, she murders her lover and sets herself up with an airtight alibi. When Columbo starts sniffing on her trail, Laura quickly works to seduce the married detective, hoping that her sex appeal will throw the usually stubborn Lieutenant off the scent.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter Falk
7.5/10 31 votes#11 - Patterns of Force
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1968
The crew of the Enterprise tracks down a Federation observer on a planet dominated by a "Naziesque" regime.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
7.5/10 2 votes#12 - The Jailer
Season 12 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1966
Six years after her husband's hanging, Ma Stone plots her revenge against Matt Dillon by first kidnapping Kitty to use as a lure and then jailing Matt to be hanged on the morning of the second day with Kitty watching as her man died.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 17 votes#13 - Death Hits the Jackpot
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 12/15/1991
After winning a $30 million lottery, photographer Freddy Brower, who wishes to keep the money a secret from the wife who is divorcing him, arranges with his uncle, wealthy jeweler Leon Lamarr, to pretend the lottery ticket is Lamarr's, until the divorce is final. Little does Brower know his uncle is having an affair with Brower's wife. Lamarr kills Brower in order to keep the lottery winnings for himself.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Jeffrey Bloom
7.1/10 18 votes#14 - Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 3/31/1990
Columbo unwittingly becomes part of a deranged woman's diabolical plot to destroy the two men she believes responsible for her husband's death in prison. After murdering one, she moves in on the other, Columbo, to kill the person closest to him, his wife.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Peter S. Fischer
7.0/10 1 votes#15 - The Neptune Affair
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1964
A rocket launch which releases a damaging spore into the Soviet grain belt is traced back to the US. Illya Kuryakin is made to return home to Russia, who threaten to retaliate, so Napoleon Solo is forced to search alone for the group of scientists who are trying to start World War III.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 45 votes#16 - Miri
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/27/1966
Kirk and a landing party are stranded on a planet due to a disease that causes any adult to die a painful death, and must deal with the local children who have survived.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Adrian Spies
7.0/10 1 votes#17 - Showdown in Saskatchewan
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/10/1988
Arson is intended to remove the Rodeo doctor and his patient permanently.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Dick Nelson
7.0/10 2 votes#18 - Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/19/1989
A very attractive young witch appears in Cabot Cove making some residents wonder if she really died a century or so ago.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Tom Sawyer
7.0/10 1 votes#19 - From Russia ... With Blood
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/26/1989
A purse snatcher gets Jessica in big trouble in Moscow. What they found in her purse shouldn't have been there.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Donald Ross
7.0/10 1 votes#20 - Truck Stop
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 4/2/1989
Walter tells his story by way of black and white flashbacks which makes an interesting change from the usual. He has made a tape of the events that ended with his murder and we see the events unfold.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 1 votes#21 - Appointment in Athens
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1989
Jessica's old friend, Michael Hagarty, persuades her to play a part in his scheme to free a fellow agent from captivity.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Tom Sawyer
7.0/10 1 votes#22 - Night of the Tarantula
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1989
A voodoo curse of death caused by the marriage of a plantation heir to the wrong person, sets off a string of events in Jamaica.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Chris Manheim
7.0/10 1 votes#23 - Murder, Plain & Simple
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 4/28/1991
When Jessica visits the Amish to buy a quilt, she finds they are not immune to murder.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Chris Manheim
6.9/10 15 votes#24 - A Bird in the Hand
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/1992
Given a deadline to pay his debts or else, chronic gambler Harold plants a bomb under the Rolls Royce of his uncle, sports magnate Big Fred. However, Big Fred is killed by a hit-and-run driver while jogging that very morning, and the Rolls Royce explodes when Fred's gardener tries to move it out of the way of the TV camera crews. Just when Columbo thinks he has the goods on Harold, it is Harold who turns up dead.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Jackson Gillis
6.9/10 44 votes#25 - Dagger of the Mind
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/3/1966
Kirk investigates an experimental facility for holding prisoners and finds a sinister scheme.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg