Eve Plumb is best known for playing middle child Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch. But the beloved actress once dreamed of becoming Mrs. Davy Jones. While promoting her 2026 memoir Happiness Included, Plumb, 67, looked back on her days on The Brady Bunch and reflected on “Getting Davy Jones,” one of the most iconic episodes of the 1970s sitcom.
The episode, which originally aired Dec. 10, 1971, on ABC, was about Marcia Brady’s (Maureen McCormick) desperate attempt to get the meet the Monkees heartthrob. But in real life, it was Plumb who had the inside connection.
“In my real life, my father had signed the Monkees to RCA in his job,” Plumb told the Pop Culture Preservation Society in a new interview. “And so I would go and listen to the Monkees record, and Davy Jones used to say, ‘Well you know I’m going to I’m going to marry you when you grow up.’”
Plumb reiterated that there was nothing creepy about Jones’s comment, noting it was “fine” at the time. She even dished that her pre-teen self didn’t rule out a future marriage to the “Daydream Believer” singer.
“You know, sort of like it seemed like a possibility,” she laughed. “You know, you don’t know at 10 or 12, you don’t know how your life is going to be. You have no, you know, you want to grow up, but there’s no idea. There’s nothing to draw on and think about what this might be like.”
Eve Plumb on the “Getting Davy Jones” episode of “The Brady Bunch.’Photo by CBS Photo Archive on Getty Images
Jones’s Brady Bunch episode is one of the most memorable from the series. While he had previously met Plumb through her father, in an interview posted on Pop Goes the Culture TV, the singer said he never “thought about” if the other Brady stars were fans of his music when he made the guest appearance. “I just tried to be natural when I talked to them as if I was just Davy Jones, this guy who was visiting,” he said.
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Eve Plumb’s dad was a successful music producer
Plumb’s father, Neely, was a record producer and A&R executive. In the 1960s, he helped discover the Carpenters after spotting them at a “Battle of the Bands” contest. In an interview with NPR, Richard Carpenter recalled his first meeting with the A& R man. “His name was Neely Plumb – P-L-U-M-B, and I knew that name anyway because … I looked for credits, songwriter credits, producers, all that stuff on records that I’d buy. …I knew his name. And he wanted to know if we were interested in recording.”
In the new interview, Plumb said of her father, “He signed the Jefferson Airplane, too. He was a very hip dad.”
Plumb noted that her father used to take out ads in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which he designed himself. “We did have some of them,” she added. “Some of them were saved, we may have sold some at auction.”
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This story was originally published by Parade on Apr 23, 2026, where it first appeared in the Entertainment section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
