Outside of Star Trek, the junior Binyon served as assistant director and/or production manager on various other TV shows as well as a number of films. He won two DGA Awards for his assistant directing work on 77 Sunset Strip and the Oscar-winning film The Deer Hunter (1978, starring John Savage). He also worked on shows such as The Outer Limits, Happy Days, Maverick and Get Smart, as well as films like To Catch a Thief (1955), The Enemy Below (1957, with Theodore Bikel, Biff Elliot, Vince Deadrick, Sr. and Lou Elias), Westworld (1973, with Majel Barrett, Alan Oppenheimer and Charles Seel) and That's Entertainment! (1974).