Too blooming many, I’ll say that much!
But in all seriousness (as well as playing devil’s advocate) for those who count a spin-off as something without the Doctor as the main character, how would you count Tales of the TARDIS?..
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Not a spin off as such because it’s really just framing material for normal episodes.
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Secret third thing, like with Curse of Fatal Death. Not quite Who, not quite a spinoff
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Curse of Fatal Death is definitely mainstream Who rather than a spinoff imo.
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Well the Curse of Fatal Death is just a comedy spoof like something like Dimensions in Time. If it is actually taken seriously then the image of Richard E. Grant in Rogue could be from here (and particularly good at rewiring and lick the mirror handsome).
I think very few people would argue that the Star Wars Holiday Special should be counted as "mainstream " either. 
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Well, the wiki does say the following:
While discussing the special in DWM 510, Moffat discussed how the intent of the special was to make a regular episode of Doctor Who which happened to also be funny, rather than just a blatant spoof, meaning that extreme steps were taken to have it fit within the then-existing canon; for instance, the Doctor is explicitly said to be in his ninth incarnation to make him a successor to Paul McGann’s previously seen Eighth Doctor. Moffat went on to add that, while it has since been disregarded, it was seen as a legitimate continuation of the show at the time.
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So we are to believe the Master spent 936 years in a sewer with giant slugs for “company” ? 
And can I have a Sofa of Reasonable Comfort?
I can believe they wanted to adhere to continuity, but in no way can I believe they actually meant for it to be taken seriously in any kind of way other than as an exaggerated parody…
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In the (very) early days of the internet,my friends and I had a short-lived website called The Sofa of Reasonable Comfort.
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Thank you! This looks like exactly what I was originally looking for on the wiki but wasn’t able to find (apparently only exact wording is good enough searching on there lol)
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This would also be my definition of a spinoff!
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No problem. One of the things I’ve always been good at is finding things.
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The Doctor spent half a billion years in the same place in another Moffat episode, Heaven Sent (and, er, 900 years in one place in another Moffat episode, The Time of the Doctor). 6 spent several episodes with Sil, who is a slug creature, and was indeed, on what looked like a comfy sofa in one episode. Space Babies had snot and fart jokes, and we also had the Slitheen.
There’s a fair amount of Doctor Who that is on similar silliness levels.
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Fair, but The Curse of Fatal Death is a whole other ballpark I would say. Doctor Who can be silly, very much sometimes.
This is a parody.
The Doctor and the Master communicates by farting. They make fun of the premise of time travel with the bribing the Architect bit.
They have boob-jokes. A ridiculous amount of regenerations. Vibrator joke.
Basically turning Doctor Who up to 200% and adding sex.
Edit: and it was two billion years in Heaven Sent 
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What are you talking about, I only remember them talking about the Etheric Beam Locators /lhj
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Oh yeah that’s true… Extremely firm ones 
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Well, here Moffat comes calling again!
Ever heard of such episodes as “The Doctor Dances” and “The Big Bang”, both with titles that refer to a very certain type of activity (and the Moff himself has admitted that woth the latter)?
And there’s a certain scene of Ten and Eleven comparing the size of their screwdrivers (that sounds so wrong when written like that) in Day of the Doctor.
Oh, and RTD does this as well. I’d say that he got very “booby” with that horrible scene in new Earth where Cassandra inhabits Rose’s body.
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Yeah, was kinda thinking Curse was basically 200% Moffat…
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And that horrible lifting of the sonic when Jenny reveals her rather fitted fighting outfit…
It is all over the place
I’m not necessarily complaining mind, my remarks were only based on The Curse of Fatal Death (is that title a dig at The Deadly Assassin’s rather redundant title?)
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Probably trying to make the most Doctor Who title ever…
The Curse of Fenric
The Curse of Peladon
The Seeds of Death
The Ambassadors of Death
The Green Death
The Robots of Death
The City of Death
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Big Finish should make a new spoof release titled “The Undeadly Assassin” just to highlight the stupidity of the original title 
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