Hosted by Don Branker,[1] the series was a showcase for bands of the era to be taped "in concert" and then broadcast on ABC on Friday nights.

The first episode was the broadcast of a concert taped at Hofstra University on November 2, 1972, with Alice Cooper, Bo Diddley, Curtis Mayfield, and Seals & Crofts.

In January 1973, both The Dick Cavett Show and In Concert became part of ABC's Wide World of Entertainment programming block.

In Concert '91 featured both newer performers (e.g. Alice in Chains, Poison) and more established acts (e.g. David Bowie, Cher, Judas Priest, Phil Collins), and was simulcast in stereo on ABC radio stations.

[8] A rerun of Rawhide was hastily substituted; both WKRC and Cincinnati newspapers received numerous nasty phone calls in protest, which included several bomb threats against the station.