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|series                = ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]''
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|enemy                  = [[Dracksil Forg]]
|enemy                  = [[Dracksil Forg]]
|setting                = [[Dowdonia]]
|setting                = [[Dowdonia]]
|writer                = [[Ben Tedds]]
|writer                = Ben Tedds
|director              = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
|director              = [[Nicholas Briggs]]
|read by                = [[Jacob Dudman]]
|read by                = [[Jacob Dudman]]
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|cover                  = [[Mark Plastow]]
|cover                  = [[Mark Plastow]]
|publisher              = Big Finish Productions
|publisher              = Big Finish Productions
|release date          = [[29 December (releases)|29 December]] [[2019 (releases)|2019]]
|release date          = 29 December 2019
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|production code        = BFMSTDLPAUL04
|production code        = BFMSTDLPAUL04
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Latest revision as of 04:38, 31 October 2024

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The Best-Laid Plans was a special free release in the Short Trips audio range from Big Finish Productions. It was the winning entry in The Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Dracksil Forg sells ideas. For the right price, he's got a solution to every possible problem. His reputation is impeccable, and whilst his ideas aren't flawless, he has a 100% money-back guarantee.

Dracksil has started selling to a new type of customer. They are dictators, warlords; species having trouble conquering galaxies or controlling populations. However, for these clients, Dracksil's ideas keep falling apart.

There's something that unites these failing ideas. A name, screamed and whispered angrily among the rants of Dracksil's new clientele: the Doctor, the Doctor, the Doctor...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Tedds developed the idea for Forg's business after speaking with a friend who had also entered the competition. Tedds "bemoaned [his] struggle to come up with something, ending [his] own message with ‘Why can’t we just go into a shop and buy an idea?’".[1]
  • The Doctor is described as "a tall man with short grey hair", although the cover depicts him with longer hair.
  • This episode was released as a download only,

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]