Eve Plumb says Davy Jones once told her he would marry her when she grew up, a line the Brady Bunch star says felt perfectly normal at the time because her family already had a music-industry connection to the Monkees.
Plumb, 67, was talking about her 2026 memoir Happiness Included when she revisited the memory, linking it back to the sitcom episode “Getting Davy Jones,” which first aired on ABC on Dec. 10, 1971. The episode followed Marcia Brady’s frantic effort to meet the Monkees heartthrob, and Plumb said the part of the story that stuck with her most was not the television set-up but the way Jones behaved around her off camera.
“In my real life, my father had signed the Monkees to RCA in his job,” Plumb said, explaining why the band was already familiar to her. She said she would listen to the Monkees’ records and remembered Jones telling her, “Well you know I'm going to I'm going to marry you when you grow up.”
She said that was “fine” to hear as a child and that her younger self did not rule out the idea. “You know, sort of like it seemed like a possibility,” she said, recalling how the remark landed in the moment. Jones, for his part, had said he had met Plumb through her father and said he never “thought about” whether the other Brady cast members were fans of his music when he showed up for 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.
The family connection runs deeper than one sitcom memory. Plumb’s father, Neely Plumb, was a record producer and A&R executive who helped discover the Carpenters in the 1960s after spotting them at a Battle of the Bands contest, according to a recollection from Richard Carpenter. Plumb said her father also signed the Jefferson Airplane and used to place his own ads in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.
The story lands because it shows how closely television and the music business crossed paths in that era, and because Plumb is now looking back on a moment that once felt ordinary and now reads like a small time capsule from a very different entertainment world. The Brady Bunch episode remains one of the show’s most memorable, but for Plumb, the sharper memory is simpler: a famous singer, a well-connected father and a childhood conversation that, for a while, did not seem impossible.
