Cafe Continental was an Australian television variety series which aired from 1958 to 1961 on ABC.
Hosted by Czech-born entertainer Hal Wayne, it featured guests of a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds[1] and aired fortnightly, alternating with Hal Lashwood's Alabama Jubilee, a minstrel series.
Producers of the series were Harry Pringle (1958–60) and Peter Page (1961).
The series featured a Café setting and was broadcast live.
In an extant 1959 episode, the guests included Brazilian dancer Yvonne Huggman, clarinettist Reuben Solomon, Terry Carr and his dog, ventriloquist Dennis Spicer, singer Wilhelmina Bermingham, and dancers The Cossack Duo,[4] while a 1960 episode featured Quintetto Di Toppano, dance duo Les Girls, French Apache dancers The Rivieras, a Croatian folk lore group, singer Theresa Leung Ping, and a one-man-juggling act named Chang.