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Higher Ground
2000 8.1 (13 votes) 1 Seasons
Genres
Drama
Networks
ABC Family
Created By
Michael Braverman
Matthew Hastings

Higher Ground

Extreme lives call for extreme measures.

Overview

Higher Ground is an American-Canadian drama action television show shot outside Vancouver, British Columbia. The series ran from January 14, 2000 - June 16, 2000 and aired on Fox Family. It stars Joe Lando, Hayden Christensen, A.J. Cook, Meghan Ory, Kandyse McClure, and Jewel Staite. Higher Ground told the story of Mount Horizon High School, a therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens, where the students learned to face their personal struggles with addiction, abuse, or disorders.

Key Crew

Producer: Harold Lee Tichenor

Top Cast

Hayden Christensen
Hayden Christensen

Scott Barringer

Meghan Ory
Meghan Ory

Juliette Waybourne

A. J. Cook
A. J. Cook

Shelby Merrick

Jewel Staite
Jewel Staite

Daisy Lipenowski

Kandyse McClure
Kandyse McClure

Katherine Ann 'Kat' Cabot

Kyle Downes
Kyle Downes

Ezra Friedkin

Jorgito Vargas Jr.
Jorgito Vargas Jr.

Augusto 'Auggie' Ciceros

Joe Lando
Joe Lando

Peter Scarbrow

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (2000)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Scott Free
2000-01-14

Troubled Scott is brought to the school against his will, as Peter learns that the bank is foreclosing on the school property.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Babe in Arms
2000-01-21

As the students are recruited to help search for a six-year-old girl lost in the woods, Auggie tries to learn the reasons behind Shelby'a apparent unconcern for the child.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Walking the Line
2000-01-28

Peter visits his father while in New York trying to get a loan, and back at the school the students dread taking their PSATs.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Our Strongest Link
2000-02-04

To teach the kids to work as a team, they are entered in the Junior Eco-Challenge competition.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: What Remains
2000-02-11

A search-and-rescue mission is mounted to find Juliette, who has fallen into an uncharted cave containing ancient Indian bones.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Crossroads
2000-02-18

Sophie gives the group a parenting assignment, and Katherine's behavior with her boyfriend threatens her impending graduation.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Worlds Apart
2000-02-25

Auggie's older brother tries to talk him into selling drugs to the rich kids at Horizon, while potential investors visit the school, and Sophie and Peter try to figure out their relationship.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Seductions
2000-03-03

As a thunderstorm causes the school to flood, Shelby's attempt to seduce Scott brings him unpleasant memories.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Hope Falls
2000-03-10

After a student commits suicide, Hannah resigns and the school's founder decides to take the group on a trek to the site of his son's death 22 years earlier.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Close Encounters
2000-03-17

Scott travels down a treacherous river, trying to run away after an encounter with his abusive stepmother. Meanwhile, Shelby falls in love with a horse that's been abused and abandoned.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Best Behavior
2000-03-31

Juliette is devastated when she isn't invited to her mother's wedding; Ezra is devastated when he learns that his parents' apparent reconciliation is a sham.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Wherefore Art Thou
2000-04-07

After Auggie and Juliette run away, Auggie is arrested for stealing food, and Peter must try to obtain his release at a probation hearing.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Attention Deficit
2000-04-14

When a tough father brings his troubled son to the school, the kid soon antagonizes the other students as the father treks through bear country with Peter.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Kids Stay In The Picture
2000-04-21

Horizon's new boss wants to make a promotional film that uses actors instead of the actual students, and Scott's real mother shows up seeking to regain custody of him.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Exposed
2000-04-28

When an undercover reporter shows up to do an expose on the school, the students feed her the wild stories that she wants to hear.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Innocence
2000-05-05

As a winter storm moves in, the kids' solo treks are ruined, Shelby becomes lost, and Peter's visiting father has a heart attack.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Daised and Confused
2000-05-12

Daisy returns home with Sophie and Shelby for her mother's funeral and must face her abusive, drunken father. Meanwhile, the Cliffhangers read and identify with Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"".

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: One of Those Days
2000-05-19

Peter's brother arrives to contest their father's will; Sophie undergoes a medical procedure; Shelby's mother pulls her out of school to take care of her ailing, formerly abusive stepfather; Ezra steals the plot of Romeo & Juliet for his new play.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Because It's There
2000-05-26

Scott tries to get Peter to get Shelby back to Horizon. Shelby finds out her stepfather abused her little sister Jess.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Falling Up
2000-06-03

Peter gets hooked on pain killers. Scotts mother comes to vist. Shelby comes back to horizion.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Mended Fences
2000-06-09

PARENTS WEEK! Scott and Shelby get into a fight. Juliette meets Auggies parents. Shelby's sister runs away from home and to Horizon. Scott lies and tells his father his step mother never abused him (but she really did). When Juliette goes to make herself throw up she ends up talking to Shelby and they sort-of become friends. After Jess gets to Horizon and tells Scott & Shelby her awful story, Scott begins to understand what Shelby went through.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Because I Love You
2000-06-16

Scott's dad comes to take him back home. Scott tries to convince Shelby they can stay togeather even if he dosen't stay at Horizion. Kat talks Peter & Sopie in to having a MORP. David is back and Ezra is upset because Daisy like David and not him. Scott get into a fight with his dad on their way home an makes him take him take him back to Horizion, and when he gets back Shelby asked him why he came back and he said ""because I love you."" Sopie asks Peter to marry her.

Runtime: 60 min

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