Footsteps was an public television program that dramatized issues in parenting.

Footsteps was an public television program that dramatized issues in parenting, with each episode centered on one of five families: The middle-class Sandburgs, the black middle-class Marshalls, the divorced Hornbrenners, the Hispanic working-class Sanchezes, and a working class teen couple with a baby, the Rileys. Each episode was 30 minutes and the dramatizations were followed by segments with celebrity married couples, commenting about their own experiences with parenting. The couples were Mike and Judy Farrell, Rob Reiner and Penny Marshall, and Max and Beverly Hamiton Robinson. There were 30 episodes produced, which were shown on public television and distributed on video for use in parenting programs.—Bill Davis