Scally the Dog

Scally first appeared on Children's ITV in January 1989, alongside his first human co-presenter, Mark Granger.

Foulkes left Children's ITV on 22 December 1989, so Downs took over presenting in the afternoons on 2 January 1990, along with Scally.

This continued until 29 March 1991, when Stonewall lost the contract to produce Children's ITV back to Central Television (who had also done it previously from 1983–1989).

However, both Downs and Scally (operated and voiced by Coombs) made a return to CITV 12 years later on 3 January 2003, when they appeared on a special one-off programme called CITV's 20th Birthday Bash, shown as part of the ITV programming block's landmark 20th birthday celebrations.

According to a post by Downs on the TV Forum website in 1998, the puppet of Scally now resides at the Museum of the Moving Image in Birmingham, and is owned by someone who used to work on the BBC Saturday morning kids' show Live & Kicking.

A Children's ITV promotional photo from early 1989, of Scally the Dog and his first co-presenter Mark Granger.
A Scally cartoon-strip from Look-in magazine, August 1989.
A Children's ITV promotional photo of the Stonewall Productions presenting team from summer 1989. (Back to front: Jerry Foulkes, Scally the Dog, Jeanne Downs and Clive Warren.)