Two Faces West is a 39-episode half-hour syndicated

Television syndication

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 television

Television

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 western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 series set in Gunnison

Gunnison, Colorado

The historic City of Gunnison, a Home Rule Municipality, is the county seat and the most populous city of Gunnison County, Colorado, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 5,854. It was named in honor of John W...

 in southwestern Colorado

Colorado

Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

, which aired from October 17, 1960, to July 31, 1961. It stars Scottish

Scottish people

The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

 native Charles Bateman (born 1928) in the dual roles of twin brothers, Rick January, M.D.

Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine is a doctoral degree for physicians. The degree is granted by medical schools...

, and Marshal

Marshal

Marshal , is a word used in several official titles of various branches of society. The word is an ancient loan word from Old French, cf...

 Ben January. Matthew Rapf produced the series.

Francis De Sales

Francis De Sales (actor)

Francis A. De Sales was an American actor. He was known for his roles on two early television series: as police Lieutenant Bill Weigand on the CBS and then NBC drama Mr. and Mrs. North and as Sheriff Maddox in the syndicated western Two Faces West...

 (1912-1988) appeared as Sheriff

Sheriff

A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country....

 Maddox; Joyce Meadows

Joyce Meadows

Joyce Meadows is a Canadian-American actress. From 1960-1961, she co-starred as Stacy in the syndicated western series Two Faces West with Charles Bateman and Francis De Sales...

 portrayed Stacy, and Paul Comi

Paul Comi

Paul Domingo Comi is an American film and television actor. Mr. Comi was invited to join and is active voting member of the Actor's Branch of the :Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.- Biography :...

 (born 1932) played Deputy Johnny Evans. In the marshal's role, Bateman played a man prone to violent outbursts in his pursuit of law and order; as the physician

Physician

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, he demonstrated calmness and compassion. The series was filmed by Screen Gems

Screen Gems

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, since Sony Pictures Television

Sony Pictures Television

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, at the Iverson's Movie Ranch

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 in Chatsworth in Los Angeles County

Los Angeles County, California

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, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

.

Episodes and guest stars

The series premiere is entitled "Hot Water". Other episodes with notable guest stars include:

"Prognosis Death" (James T. Callahan

James T. Callahan

James Thomas Callahan was an American film and television actor who appeared in more than 120 films and television shows between 1959 and 2007...

), "Sheriff of the Town" (Dyan Cannon

Dyan Cannon

Dyan Cannon is an American film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer.-Early life:...

 and Walter Coy

Walter Coy

Walter Darwin Coy was an American stage, radio, film, and, principally, television actor, originally from Great Falls, Montana. He was best known for narrating the NBC western anthology series, Frontier, which aired early Sunday evenings in the 1955-1956 season.-Career:Coy performed on Broadway...

), "The Trigger" (Ron Hagerthy

Ron Hagerthy

Ronald F. "Ron" Hagerthy is a former American actor known primarily for his guest-starring and supporting roles on television westerns. In 1952, he portrayed Clipper King in the modern western series, Sky King, with Kirby Grant in the title role of Clipper's uncle, Schuyler "Sky" King, pilot of...

 as Lucas Garrett), "The Challenge" (Barbara Stuart

Barbara Stuart

Barbara Ann Stuart was an American actress.-Major roles:Stuart portrayed "Miss Bunny", the girlfriend of Sergeant Vincent Carter, played by Frank Sutton, on three seasons of CBS's Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C....

), "Fallen Gun" (DeForest Kelley

DeForest Kelley

Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor known for his iconic roles in Westerns and as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek.-Early life:...

, "The Prisoner" (Chris Alcaide

Chris Alcaide

Christopher "Chris" Alcaide was an American actor particularly known for his role in television westerns. He surfaced to national attention as Deputy Joshua Tate in the 1956 film Gunslinger, co-starring Beverly Garland as a woman marshal.In 2003, Alcaide was among recipients, including the Sons of...

), "The Last Man" (L.Q. Jones and John M. Pickard

John Pickard (American actor)

John M. Pickard was an American actor who appeared primarily in television Westerns.-Early life and career:...

), "The Proud Man" (Dabbs Greer

Dabbs Greer

Robert William "Dabbs" Greer was an American actor who performed many diverse supporting roles in film and television for some fifty years. His distinctive, southern-accented voice fitted well in shows featuring rustic characters, such as westerns...

), "The Drought" (Walter Burke

Walter Burke

Walter Burke was a prolific Irish-American character actor, of stage, film, and television. His small stature, and distinctive voice and face, made him easily recognizable in even the most minor of roles.- Early life :...

), "Performance Under Fire" (June Blair

June Blair

June Blair is an American model and actress. She is best known for being Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Hal Adams.Blair made her first television appearance in 1954...

), "The Wayward" (Chris Robinson

Chris Robinson (actor)

Chris Robinson is an actor who played Rick Webber #2 on General Hospital...

), "Hand of Vengeance" (John Marley

John Marley

John Marley was an American actor who was known for his role as Phil Cavalleri in Love Story and as Jack Woltz— the defiant film mogul who awakens to find the severed head of his prized horse in his bed—in The Godfather...

 and Denver Pyle

Denver Pyle

Denver Dell Pyle was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing Uncle Jesse in The Dukes of Hazzard .-Early life:...

), "The Decision" (Gilman Rankin

Gilman Rankin

Gilman W. Rankin was a Massachusetts-born actor who appeared primarily in television westerns between 1956 and 1975. Between 1957 and 1959, he had a supporting role as Deputy Charlie Riggs in seven episodes of the series Tombstone Territory...

), "The Noose" (Victor French

Victor French

Victor Edwin French was an American actor and director.-Early career:Born in Santa Barbara, California,...

 and again L.Q. Jones), "The Vials" (Howard Caine

Howard Caine

Howard Caine , was a popular character actor, probably best known as Gestapo agent Major Wolfgang Hochstetter in the television series Hogan's Heroes....

), "The $10,000 Reward" (Dennis Cross

Dennis Cross

Dennis Cross was an American actor who was the lead star of the syndicated television series The Blue Angels, fictional stories of daredevil United States Navy pilots which aired from 1960-1961...

), "Doctor's Orders" (Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Simon Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. Nimoy's most famous role is that of Spock in the original Star Trek series , multiple films, television and video game sequels....

 and Ryan O'Neal

Ryan O'Neal

Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal , better known as Ryan O'Neal, is an American actor best known for his appearances in the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place and for his roles in such films as Paper Moon , Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon , A Bridge Too Far , and Love Story , for which he received...

, then unknown actors), "Music Box" (Ron Hayes

Ron Hayes

Ronald G. Hayes was an American television actor who, as an activist in the environmental movement, worked for the establishment of the first Earth Day, observed on April 22, 1970. He was a member of the Sierra Club and a founder of the ecological interest group Wilderness World...

), and "The Dead Ringer" (Gregg Palmer

Gregg Palmer

Gregg Palmer, originally Palmer Lee is an American actor, known primarily for his prolific work in television westerns...

and again June Blair). The series finale is called "The Assassin".