Don't Forget the Driver: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

A dark comedy set in sunny seaside Bognor Regis. It explores what it means to live, work and parent at a point when the entire UK population is having to come to terms with the changing colour of their passports.

Coach driver and single dad Peter Green leads a life of ordinary routine; clip on ties, limp packed lunches, vehicle checks, roundtrip coach journeys ferrying church groups to donkey sanctuaries and Japanese tourists to Canterbury Cathedral.

Green is at full stretch just about coping with his disaffected daughter Kayla (bored to a state of almost total inertia in a place that has nothing for her) and Audrey, his mum, whose life is rapidly descending into confusion and fear. The discovery of a dead body on the docile Bognor shoreline and an unsettling meeting with a new arrival in town throws Green's life into chaos - a lost soul in need of assistance, who he could help. But will he...Can he?

Series details

• Title: Don't Forget the Driver
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy
• Premiere date: 2019-04-09
• Final broadcast date listed: 2019-05-14
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC Two
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.8/10
• TVMaze ID: 38243
• IMDb ID: tt8359654
• TVDB ID: 348471

Cast and credited roles

• Toby Jones — Peter Green
• Claire Rushbrook — Fran
• Toby Jones — Barry Green
• Marcia Warren — Joy
• Joni Ayton-Kent — Bradley
• Danny Kirrane — Squeaky Dave
• Erin Kellyman — Kayla
• Luwam Teklizgi — Rita

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2019-04-09; final listed air date 2019-05-14; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from Don't Forget the Driver on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.