owen 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). they were both replaced by a solo tommy boyd on 1 april 1991. however, both downs and scally (operated & 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.