scally first appeared on children's itv in january 1989, alongside his first human co-presenter, mark granger. when the independent production company, stonewall productions took over producing children's itv in april '89, scally was kept on and appeared alongside the new presenter, former tv-am co-host nick owen, in the afternoons for the rest of '89. in summer 1989, when stonewall's children's itv summer mornings service launched, he appeared with new recruits, clive warren and jeanne downs. scally had several catchphrases that he often used on children's itv, one of which was: "yes, indeedy!", which he usually said when he was happy about something. another one was: "we're still here!", which was often said by both owen & scally during their links, referring to them still being on-air at the time.