If you were an adult in 1995, when the original Toy Story came out, you probably had some exposure to old westerns and some exposure to old children’s shows, if only through spoofs of puppet shows or clown shows, so Woody seemed like a classic toy from a fairly recently bygone age — but kids these days don’t even have a passing familiarity with, say, The Roy Rogers Show.
While watching the first episode (at 22:52), I heard a very familiar scream, as a bad guy fell to his death, but it was not quite the now infamous Wilhelm scream:
The Wilhelm scream is an iconic stock sound effect that has been used in many films, television programs and other media, originating in the 1951 film Distant Drums, where the scream was allegedly voiced by actor Sheb Wooley. The scream is often used in scenarios when someone is shot, falls from a great height or is thrown from an explosion. The scream is named after Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River, a 1953 Western in which the character gets shot in the thigh with an arrow. This was its first use following its inclusion in the Warner Bros. Pictures stock sound library, although The Charge at Feather River was the third film to use the effect. It was used in all of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films prior to Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm.
The Roy Rogers Show was produced by Roy Rogers Productions (with many former Republic Pictures personnel), Grok informs me, and filmed primarily at Samuel Goldwyn Studio and outdoor locations such as the Iverson Ranch. It was not a Warner Bros. production and would not have had routine access to that studio’s proprietary stock effects library in the same way.