If you ever wondered how Patrick Swayze managed to film his new series “The Beast” although he was undergoing chemotherapy, the answer may be quite simple and not surprising: his beloved wife Lisa.

They know it and the other people who worked with the coupe on the set noticed it. The series producer John Romano told People magazine that everyone on the set was moved by the closeness and humor of Swayzes’ relationship.

Lisa Swayze had a paramount influence on her husband. She accompanied him each day on the set and helped him get through the tough and painful regular chemotherapy for his stage 4 pancreatic cancer. I believe I’m not making a mountain out of a molehill by saying that he couldn’t have done it without her.

Behind every great man is a great woman, and the Swayzes are a perfect example. Although it was incalculably hard, Patrick pulled it through and, as he told Barbara Walters in an interview earlier this month, he’s “kicking it.” He proved that, although he is 56 years old and has pancreatic cancer, he can still make it in the tough entertainment business.

Patrick and Lisa are a “creative partnership,” as Angell put it. Co-creator Bill Rotko noted that, after the takes, Patrick used to ask him how it was and then ask Lisa about it.

"They're each other's rocks," Rotko added emotionally.

The “what do you think” thing that was going on between them took their on-stage relationship to the next level. On one occasion, Lisa actually directed an episode. Lisa, 52, did a great job then and managed to go through a seven-day schedule in five days.

And by the way, if you want to see Patrick Swayze on the TV screen again after a long period of absence, A&E's new TV series “The Beast” kicks off tonight at 10pm ET/PT. The show is about Swayze’s character Charles Barker, an FBI veteran who takes a rookie partner (Ellis Dove played by actor Travis Fimmel) under his wing and trains him using his unconventional yet effective ways.

Patrick Swayze had to cancel his planned appearance at the Television Critics Association to promote “The Beast” due to a pneumonia which sent him directly to the hospital. The news of his pneumonia came shortly after the interview with Barbara Walters in which Swayze acknowledged that he was going through hell and he did not hope to live more than two years.

The actor said then that if he’d say he will live five years more it would be a long shot. Well, it would be a very long shot considering the fact that pancreatic cancer usually sends a man to his grave in about six months.