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We deals in this paper with a phenomenological approach – whose central concept is “explicitation”, as defined by Peter Sloterdijk – of two ages of television. According to this classification, there are two different political regimes: the television of “scarcity” inside a totalitarian political regime, illustrated by the Romanian National Television during Ceausescu’s presidency, on the one hand, and the television of “abundance” of nowadays, in a free capitalist democracy. The latter is seen first as a technological means of making and spreading images and secondly, via one episode of the well-known series Dr. House, as fiction-maker able to put into question the value of precisely the two kind of political regimes mentioned above: dictatorship and capitalist democracy.

Keywords: History of television, explicitation, Romanian Television, Peter Sloterdijk, Dr. House