The Snag Finders ( comic story ) The Snag Finders was a " Doctor Who Adventures " comic story featuring the Tenth Doctor . Summary . Part one . Once the best sanitary engineers in the solar system is now relegated to " snag finding " in the lower levels of Space Station Alpha , ( the largest artificial satellite in orbit around the Earth in the year 3769 ) . Welding Robot X - 5 " Bert " and his mate Jimmy are carrying out routine inspection of a waste outlet pipe that appears to have gone missing . Jimmy is working on snag - finding duties to raise money to repair the broken bionic rivet gun attached to his arm . When it is fixed they can return to the top executive levels , working for better credits . All of a sudden , Bert ' s antigrav goes offline and he falls down a thruster duct . There he meets the Tenth Doctor . All suited up , the Doctor is impressed to find a Technomatic — " the best construction robots ever invented " . Introductions are cut short when Bert ' s connections seem to fail and he accidentally zooms off , dragging the Doctor behind with him . When he comes to rest they are rejoined by Jimmy . The Doctor diagnoses Bert ' s erratic behaviour , attributing it to a secret signal on an unauthorised wavelength emanating from Block 17 . Taking Bert ' s receptors offline , Bert and Jimmy accompany the Doctor to investigate the source of the signal . Behind closed doors in the waste containment block they find armed and unfriendly androids . When disturbed , they activatedand threaten to " terminate the humanoids " . Escaping down the missing waste outlet pipe the Doctor , Jimmy and Bert come face to face with the Klytode , who unlike its guard androids , is ready . " Ready to destroy the planet Earth " ! Part two . The Klytode is armed with a cobalt bomb , " the most destructive weapon in the solar system " . The bomb is primed to explode and blast Space Station Alpha out of orbit and crash into the Earth . Bert leaps into action , snatches the bomb from the Klytode and carries Jimmy and the Doctor off — pursued by the androids . Deep within the Space Station they are unable to call for help . The Klytode is also unable to send a low frequency delta waves signal to detonate the bomb . The Klytode doesn ' t give up and catches up with them on the higher levels where the Klytode takes back possession of the bomb . The Klytode ( a gestalt being — a powerful mind with many bodies — plans to use the bomb to crash into the Earth , setting off a chain of events that will change the climate of the planet and see it reborn as a Klytode paradise . The Klytode brethren will arrive and drain the planet . They will turn it into an exhausted husk like its own home world on the edge of the Aktren galaxy and other planets that the Klytode have inhabited . However , the Doctor has a plan . On his command Bert sends a jamming signal on the same unauthorised frequency used to scramble his own controls . The androids are rendered useless and the Klytode weakened . Snatching back the bomb , the Doctor quickly repairs to Jimmy ' s bionic rivet cannon and shoots the bomb into space . Help soon arrives and the Klytode is arrested and sent back to the Artren galaxy . Bert and Jimmy ( now with a repaired rivet cannon ) , are destined to become executive waste engineers once again . References . " to be added " Notes . Original print details . Publication with page count and closing captions Continuity . " to be added "