Plan

A poster featuring the word "planning". (TV: School Reunion ^[+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"])

A plan referred to one's strategy for carrying out an objective.

The Doctor

While Clara Oswald believed that "people always have plans", the Eleventh Doctor flagged himself as the exception. (TV: The Bells of Saint John ^[+]Loading...["The Bells of Saint John (TV story)"]) The Daleks believed that the Doctor always had a plan and were hesitant to open fire on him in case he had some manner of failsafe to turn against them. (TV: The Time of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"], AUDIO: The Enigma Dimension ^[+]Loading...["The Enigma Dimension (audio story)"], PROSE: Father of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Father of the Daleks (short story)"])

The Master

Upon regenerating, the Saxon Master mocked the Tenth Doctor by stating that, unlike their prior clashes, he would not be explaining his plans to the Doctor. (TV: Utopia ^[+]Loading...["Utopia (TV story)"]) The Spy Master later mockingly referred to his alliance with the Daleks as "The Master's Dalek Plan". (TV: The Power of the Doctor ^[+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])

Daleks

At the onset of the Thal-Dalek battle, the Daleks of the Dalek City discovered that they had evolved to become dependent on radiation and planned to flood the atmosphere of Skaro with nuclear waste. (TV: The Daleks ^[+]Loading...["The Daleks (TV story)"], AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro ^[+]Loading...["The Lights of Skaro (audio story)"]) Fifty cycles later, when Susan was exploring the derelict Dalek City, she discovered its floor plan. Comparing the layout to its electrical grid allowed her to deduce the existence of the incubation level, leading the group to discover the Daleks' new plan of weaponising the network of ionising towers. (AUDIO: Return to Skaro ^[+]Loading...["Return to Skaro (audio story)"])

The Time Destructor Incident was referred to by the Time Lords as the "Dalek Masterplan incident". (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide ^[+]Loading...["Dalek Survival Guide (novel)"]) By the time of the Twelfth Doctor's regeneration, he kept a VHS tape of the Daleks' master plan in his TARDIS. The Daleks, by contrast, had lost their record of their master plan. (PROSE: Twice Upon a Time ^[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)"])

Others

The Meep planned to destroy London, leaving the Fourteenth Doctor no choice but to jog Donna Noble's memory. (PROSE: The Doctor's Busiest Day ^[+]Loading...{"page":"8","1":"The Doctor's Busiest Day (short story)"})

References

A purple poster in the Deffry Vale High School staff room included the word "planning" in white text. (TV: School Reunion ^[+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"])

During Truth or Consequences's attempted takeover of Earth, the Twelfth Doctor spoke to Bonnie and asked her what her plan was, even joking that the word planet was chosen to remind would-be conquerors to "plan it". When in the Black Archive, the Doctor concluded that Bonnie did not actually have a long-term plan. (TV: The Zygon Inversion ^[+]Loading...["The Zygon Inversion (TV story)"])