He is best remembered for his partnership with Vince Powell on comedy television programmes including Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, Nearest and Dearest, Bless This House and Love Thy Neighbour.
Driver began to write stories and scripts, initially when in the iron lung (via dictation) and then on a typewriter, apparently with a knitting needle clenched between his teeth.
He received his first television credit for an episode of Skyport (1959–60), a drama set in an airport broadcast on 24 March 1960.
His former performing partner, Vince Powell, meanwhile, had also turned his hand to writing and had begun to collaborate with Driver.
and together the pair became one of Britain's greatest comedy teams of the 1960s, writing television sitcoms such as Nearest and Dearest, George and the Dragon and For the Love of Ada.