Graham Greene, short stories

I am wondering if I'm the only person in the world who watched a tv series, no doubt British, featuring thirty minute/less episodes of short stories, back in the seventies or eighties. (Maybe they were an hour, but I don't think so.)
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I've given up (to date) researching this online. I'm interested, because the episode remains in my own mind as a kind of painting, not unlike the Degas painting of the woman with absinthe, except in this case it is the man I remember.

In the film Donnie Darko (2001), the main character contributes to discussion of The Destructors (by Graham Greene) in his English class. Several of Donnie's acts of vandalism are drawn from influences in The Destructors, for example, the flooding of his school and the arson of the house of a pedophile promotional speaker.

Plot summary

The Destructors occurs in the mid-1950s, and is about a boys' gang named the "Wormsley Common Gang", after the place where they live. Trevor, or "T", the protagonist, devises a plan to destroy a two hundred-year-old house that survived The Blitz, simply because it is beautiful. Under T, their new leader, the gang accepts the plan and executes it when the owner of the house, Mr. Thomas (whom the gang call "Old Misery"), is away during a bank holiday weekend. Their plan is to destroy the house from inside, then tear down the remaining infrastructure. Mr Thomas returns home early, however, and the gang locks him in the outhouse and leader T refuses to stop until the destruction job is complete, because even the facade is valuable and could be reused. The final damage to the house is done when a parked lorry pulls away a support pole from the side of the house. Mr. Thomas is released from the outhouse by the aforementioned lorry's driver and is left with the dusty rubble of what once was his home.

Television adaptation

The Destructors was adapted for television as part of the 1970s British drama series Shades of Greene.