The Best-Laid Plans (audio story)

The Best-Laid Plans
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Main enemy:	Dracksil Forg
Main setting:	Dowdonia
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Ben Tedds
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	Alfie Shaw
Music:	Richard Fox
Sound:	Richard Fox
Read by:	Jacob Dudman
Cover by:	Mark Plastow
Release details
Release number:	9.X
Release date:	29 December 2019
Production code:	BFMSTDLPAUL04
ISBN:	978-1-83868-092-3
Official trailer
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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

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

to be added

Characters

• Twelfth Doctor
• Dracksil Forg
• Lawnier

References

• Currently profitable careers include graphic designer and architect.
• One property mogul was a postman before changing careers on Dracksil's advice. He later assisted Dracksil with his cottage on the beaches of Titania 9.

Notes

• 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?’".
• The Doctor is described as "a tall man with short grey hair", although the cover depicts him with longer hair.

Continuity

to be added

External links

• Official The Best-Laid Plans page at bigfinish.com