The joys and the shadows) is a 1982 Spanish prime-time television series based on the novel trilogy of the same name by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.

Produced and written by Jesús Navascués for Televisión Española, it was directed by Rafael Moreno Alba and starred by Amparo Rivelles, Eusebio Poncela, Charo López and Carlos Larrañaga.

Originally intended as a ten-episodes series of 60 minutes each, Televisión Española agreed to expand it to thirteen episodes due to the length and depth of the trilogy of novels it is based on, Los gozos y las sombras.

Produced and written by Jesús Navascués and directed by Rafael Moreno Alba, it was supervised by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester himself, author of the novels.

With a budget of 165 million pesetas, principal photography began in December 1980 and lasted seven months, with the exteriors shot in and around Pontevedra and Bueu and the interiors in Madrid.