This is the second and successful pilot that was produced and aired first for syndication on several CW affiliates and Pureflix Entertainment. This fully re-written pilot, "Superiority of the High and Mighty Kind-ness", focused on establishing the characters where they came from then transitioning into the roles they would be known for in the series. Namely Dillon and Landon moving in together after high-school and how Bogroe shows up as a freeloader needing a place to stay.
Parts of this first unsuccessfully sold pilot episode that were filmed were used and added to a new script making a clearer storyline for this second episode "Friends, Family, and Freeloaders".
Previous versions did not include enough of establishing the main characters, particularly Dillon's first scene in the classroom helping Griffin Sundin, which is where both characters were initially introduced the way it is seen in this now second episode.
The next produced episode that was never made, due to the cancellation, would have picked up after the episode "Gone, but not forgotten". Miri alludes to this in the episode when talking to Erin outside on her deck. The never produced script was about the girls dressing to impress, progressively and more indecently each day, in an effort to gain attention from guys at their High School. The unspoken, but dress less competing, is spearheaded by competitive girl cliques, self-esteem issues, and complex love hate relationships, mainly between Erin and Savannah, and a few of their friends and frenemies. With the show being a family oriented theme, the clothes would have been borderline indecent exposure and shocking in all the appropriate ways, but totally relatable to viewers. The titled episode was "Pretty Much Perfect". This would have been the first episode solely written by Lec Zorn and where the episode would have been centered on Erin and Savannah almost completely as the main plot.
There were multiple early episode drafts of the Up on High Ground (2014) scripts that had the character Mrs. Hialeah being pregnant and even going into labor in one classroom scene. Producers knew actress Sarah Cotton was pregnant and she played an integral part of the story arc, so the scenes were written to add the pregnancy and give viewers an understanding of her family and impending child. The scenes, some where Hialeah's sitting for comfort, were ultimately cut or re-written when Sarah informed producers she was available for an upcoming all day shoot then the baby arrived early.
Ashley Pavlige's character, Melody Hull, had the distinction of being in the final scene, having spoken the final words of the TV series "Up on High Ground"