I worked on “CHARMED” for 5 years and thought I had more pictures…? perhaps they are just yet to be found. I was a Dolly Grip for all 5 years switching up to second unit Key usualy once per episode and I also keyed the enormous move of all our sets and equipment fro Rayart studios to Paramount for the last 2 years of the show. The crew on CHARMED were all veterans, many of having done several series together going back 10+ years together. The Grips were all friends Steve Gausche (Key Grip) Tom Ham (Best Boy), Alvin Simmions (DOlly) Bill Witthans, Me, (Dolly) Mark Kuromoto (hammer) Ted Lewis (Hammer) John Farmer (Hammer). Good times!
This was the first day of the first episode I worked on. I had been Keying the ARLISS show and had an overlap of a few weeks so started CHARMED a few weeks into their season. This was the Mermaid episode were Melissa Milano turns into a “Mermaid”
Thats me on the arm of the crane with Mark Overton (booman) next to me.
Beach days are sometime very nice, sometimes a pain….this day….NICE!
On the bucket of the AREO crane…. 
When I did second units John Farmer would be the Dolly grip on those. Here’s “Mr Farmer” swinging the arm of a Champman “Zeus” crane. (this could be the very crane you see in use on the “I dream of Genie” show in my Classic Hollywood section! These thing were built to last! I they could talk!)
Jeff DeAngelo on set Propman….deep in thought…not about the scene….but probably on how the Boston “Red Sox” are doing!
Greg (Operator) and Hal Arnold (1st AC) on my camera, shooting on Paramount’s back lot New York street.
Looking 90 degrees from Greg and Hal one of the film loaders and in the background what we grips call a “fly Swatter”. A big (20’x20′) black cloth rigged to the end of an 80′ condor so we can put it in different locations to control sunlight. Different materials can be used instead of the black “solid” to allow some light to pass through. These are built and run by Grips.
Donny Leyman (hat) the Electric Best Boy and the Gaffer in chair dressed like a bd German tourist. Sit between setups.
Further down the street later in the day…. Alsvin and I have a super Techno crane to run for this “fire” scene. Key Grip Steve Gausche is in the foreground with his always present UCLA hat on. Steve is not only I guy I have worked with for 15 years but my best friend!
Derick the First AD is coordinating the setup with the megaphone before action is called by the Director.
The same sequence from later and a different angle. Greg Guello (blue cap) and Ted Lewis (lower right) can just be seen.
This was a stunt during a second unit I keyed The Techno crane has been water proofed by us before the shot. Again Paramount’s backlot near the Water tower.
Kris Koskove (operator checked shirt) Alvin Simmions (Dolly grip peaking around camera) and Me (up on crane arm) share a magic LA moment on location near downtown LA were all the Victorian houses are…Carrol street! We used it for the front of the Charmed house. The crane is either a Chapman Apolo or a Titan, another of those cranes that have been making movies for 50 years!
Ted Lewis and I clown a bit during lunch with our “mummy”. This was a second unit. Suff like this helps make those 15 hour days bearable.
Our “Best Boy” grip Tom Ham! doing what a BB does best, telling the UPM wht we need what we need….lol! Poor Best Boys are always stuck in the middle trying to please everyone. Tom does a great job. I worked for time back when I was a we lad, on the “gang” working nights at Universal Studios prepping sets for the next mornings shoot.
Bert our Director gives instruction to the actor, I believe it was Rose at this moment in the VW car wreck scene. Stunt Coordinator Noon Orsotti is in Red shirt. Another second unit showing the car mount we did on the “new” Volkswagen Beetle.
Another of my good, long time friends both on and off set is Mark Kuromoto. He is shown here dulling down or aging a sign so it does not look so “new” or bright in a scene. Grips wear all sorts of “hats” 