Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders is the third of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on October 3, 2000, and it was produced, starting in 1999, by Warner Bros. Animation . Unlike the previous films, in spite of the grimmer atmosphere, it also had a lighter tone since the real monsters are the good guys and the disguised humans are the primary antagonists. It is the third of the first four Scooby Doo direct-to-video film to be animated overseas by Japanese animation studio: Mook Animation. The Mystery Machine is... driving through the Mojave desert. A sandstorm comes up and Shaggy makes an wrong turn onto government property. Seeing a UFO causes Shaggy to lose control of the vehicle and the gang find themselves on the outskirts of a small town. While Scooby and Shaggy stay with the van the rest of the gang enters a local diner to get directions. Shaggy and Scooby then see a mythical animal called a jackalope. The run into the diner in panic, claiming to have seen aliens.
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| Release date: | October 3, 2000 |
| Directed by: | Jim Stenstrum |
| Runtime: | 80 Minutes |
| Producer: | William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Davis Doi |
| Genre: | Animation, Science Fiction |