Blaine, Jess and Shelby's mother (2 episodes) Jim Byrnes as Frank Markasian, who founded Horizon after his son committed suicide (5 episodes) Sean Campbell as Sheriff Curtis Swann (7 episodes) Kyle Alisharan as Hank, Kat's boyfriend (5 episodes) Benita Ha as Annie, who owns the local restaurant and lives with her 5-year-old daughter Gracie (7 episodes) Garwin Sanford as Martin Barringer, Scott's father (5 episodes) Emmanuelle Vaugier as Elaine Barringer, Scott's sexually abusive stepmother (4 episodes) Terence Kelly as Don Scarbrow, Peter's father (3 episodes) Suzy Joachim as Juliette's abusive mother (3 episodes) Kett Turton as D. David Ruxton, a new member of the Cliffhangers (3 episodes) Ingrid Torrance as Chloë, Peter's ex-wife (4 episodes) Jessica Marte as Gracie (3 episodes) Roger Cross as Roger Claypool, a worker at Horizon who retrieves children (4 episodes) Episodes Higher Ground consists of 22 episodes, each of which features a quotation at the beginning. These quotes comes from famous writers, politicians and other significant persons. Home media In 2015, Higher Ground was released through both Amazon and iTunes for purchase via digital download. Production The series was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia. Production on at the series began in July 1999. The original name of the series was Cliffhangers. By November, the film crew had only 5–6 hours of daylight each day, shifting much of the dramatic action indoors during the middle episodes. Fox Family and Lions Gate Films took advantage of tax incentive programs offered by the Canadian and British Columbia governments to reduce costs. The programs required that the bulk of production expenses, including salaries, be spent in Canada. Because of this, though American writers wrote all 22 of the episodes, Canadians directed all the episodes, and almost all the cast and crew were Canadian. Producers received support from other Canadian artists over the course of the series. Canadian songwriter Sarah McLachlan licensed her 1998 song “Angel” in its entirety for only C$10,000, the minimum allowable under her record company contract (the song plays at the end of Episode 2). On May 4, 2000, producers received word that Hayden Christensen had been cast in the then-upcoming Star Wars film, Attack of the Clones (Lucasfilm made the official announcement on May 7). George Lucas became aware of Christensen when Christensen's agent sent him the pilot episode from Higher Ground. Higher Ground was cancelled after its first season due to the sale of