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First Aired: January 14th, 2000

Status: Ended

Genre: Drama

Summary: 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.

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Season 1

Episode 1: Scott Free

Air Date: January 14th, 2000

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

Episode 2: Babe in Arms

Air Date: January 21st, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 3: Walking the Line

Air Date: January 28th, 2000

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

Episode 4: Our Strongest Link

Air Date: February 4th, 2000

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

Episode 5: What Remains

Air Date: February 11st, 2000

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

Episode 6: Crossroads

Air Date: February 18th, 2000

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

Episode 7: Worlds Apart

Air Date: February 25th, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 8: Seductions

Air Date: March 3rd, 2000

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

Episode 9: Hope Falls

Air Date: March 10th, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 10: Close Encounters

Air Date: March 17th, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 11: Best Behavior

Air Date: March 31st, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 12: Wherefore Art Thou

Air Date: April 7th, 2000

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

Episode 13: Attention Deficit

Air Date: April 14th, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 14: The Kids Stay In The Picture

Air Date: April 21st, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 15: Exposed

Air Date: April 28th, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 16: Innocence

Air Date: May 5th, 2000

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

Episode 17: Daised and Confused

Air Date: May 12nd, 2000

Summary: 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"".

Episode 18: One of Those Days

Air Date: May 19th, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 19: Because It's There

Air Date: May 26th, 2000

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

Episode 20: Falling Up

Air Date: June 3rd, 2000

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

Episode 21: Mended Fences

Air Date: June 9th, 2000

Summary: 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.

Episode 22: Because I Love You

Air Date: June 16th, 2000

Summary: 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.

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