[1] Time for Love can be considered a sequel to — or a spinoff of — Cafe Istanbul, although the setting and the main character's name differed from those of the earlier program.

[3] Cox described the main character, Dianne La Volte, as "a mythical, globally famous vocal performer ... [who] crusaded avocationally for law and order across the continents.

Although La Volte lived in San Francisco, episodes of the program took her to Rome, Venice, Casablanca, Singapore, Vienna, and other far-flung places.

[3] In the book Dietrich Icon, Gerd Gemünden and Mary R. Desjardins described a typical episode in which "La Volta confronts German gunrunners while on safari in Kenya during the Mau-Mau uprising.

[3] The program's theme was the song Time for Love, which Dietrich recorded with Percy Faith and his orchestra in 1953.