Broadcast in the United States in September 1977, it was released on VHS in 1978.

Alice Cooper and Friends was filmed in concert on 19 June 1977 at the Anaheim Stadium in California.

[1] This was the first night of Cooper's "King of the Silver Screen" tour, in support of his album Lace and Whiskey.

The video does include the infamous Chickens with Machine Guns sequence during the song "Lace and Whiskey".

The video of the special has been discontinued since its original release, and has not been issued on DVD.